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Originally Posted by GrantDawg
I agree with everything except he is not much different than HRC. His politics maybe close, but he is nowhere near as hated as she was. She had decades of hatred that she needed to overcome, not to mention the gender factor.
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She was also in the spotlight much more. Biden was the folksy Senator from a tiny state who didn't draw much interest. Even when he was in the VP running, he got paired against Sarah Palin who drew most of the media attention.
The Republicans have already showed their hand and they are going to target him the same way they did Clinton. They're going to point out how his family was gifting while he was in office. They're going to show his racist past (Hannitty apparently spent half his show playing racist clips of Biden). Probably even bring up his mental decline (remember all the clips of Hilary tripping or whatever?). You're going to see hundreds of millions of dollars of that blasted at you which is something he's never dealt with before.
Now their strategy isn't intended to flip votes. It's to depress turnout. It worked in 2016. A lot of Obama voters just stayed home (especially rural Democrats). Will they do the same after 6 months of hearing about Biden's past troubles?
I think the most important person in this election is Obama. He stumped for Hillary, but I think it felt fake. They never seemed to have a bond. There was always the animosity over 2008.
But Obama and Biden seem to have a genuine friendship. If he hits the trail hard to vouch for "Uncle Joe", I think that brings out the voters. Obama has sat by quietly the past few years taking jabs from Trump at every turn. I wonder if he's going to unleash on the trail and exact some revenge. The Democrats could sure use it.