Steph showed a poll showing Biden in the law single digits in Iowa. Joe Biden smiled, cocksure: "I'm everybody's second choice." With a broad smile on his face, he promised Steph that he would drop out of the race if he did as badly as the polls indicate.
Biden won't be the presidential nominee, but could he be a possible veep pick? This last month from the Baltimore Sun:
Voters sometimes assume that a longshot contender - a Joe Biden, perhaps - must really be running for vice president. After all, he'd have to be delusional to think he could win the presidential nomination. So what's he really after?
Biden recently ruled out the vice presidency, at least with Clinton, who, he said, will win the nomination if he doesn't. Clinton already has a de facto running mate: her husband. "I love Bill Clinton but can you imagine being [her] vice president?" Biden told CNN. His remarks helped reinforce another line of thinking: Biden is really running for Secretary of State. (For the record, he's denied that, too.)
I've always said that Hillary will pick a white male running-mate--the change of a woman president would be too much for voters if combined with an Obama on the ticket. Strickland is the top choice by far. I don't think Hillary would choose Biden. She's already got experienced help in her husband, so electoral calculations wax larger and Strickland is in.
This from Robert Novak's column of May, 2004:
Influential Democrats are urging Sen. John Kerry to consider Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, the party's principal voice on foreign policy, as his choice for vice president.
Picking the 61-year-old Biden would be reminiscent of George W. Bush's selection in 2000 of Dick Cheney, then 59. Like Cheney, Biden would be chosen for his qualifications to succeed to the presidency rather than for influencing electoral votes of a large swing state. As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's top Democrat, he supported military action against Iraq and is less critical of President Bush than Kerry has been.
Biden, who has served in the Senate for 31 years, considered running for president this year but decided against it.
One would have to think that Biden would be at the top of the list of potential veep picks for Obama.
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