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Originally Posted by QuikSand
I generally agree with this. His image whitewashing of late is mysterious to me - voters have had chances to see him before, and pretty universally said "no thanks." I guess he feels to many disaffected Dems like the last best alternative to HRC last go-round, and he's benefiting from some gauzy Obama halo effect, too. But Biden is exactly the guy we saw this week - dropping mentions about hos five years ago it was "fine" to make gay jokes. THAT is who Joe Biden is, as a politician, and as a campaigner. He's actually a weak candidate, in most ways past the "want to have a beer with him" category.
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Biden has been a bad campaigner twice before. Maybe the reality is that he's just not good enough to win the big game. Everybody decided to forget about his past campaigns after 2016, but so far he's acting more like Jeb! than Obama.