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Whether you see Biden's strengths as augmenting Obama or highlighting the Illinois senator's weaknesses, there's no doubt the two fit like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Where Obama may be criticized for inexperience, Biden has 35 years in the Senate to his credit. Some have fretted about...
"As an Irish Catholic, with arguable working class roots and with much appeal to white ethnic voters in places like Pennsylvania, his presence on the ticket may help with key demographic groups in the East and Midwest," says Steve Schneck, a political science professor at Catholic University in Washington. It...
In his first appearance with Obama, Biden drew heavily on his Pennsylvania roots, and his faith, which gives him a connection with another group of swing voters. "I was an Irish-Catholic kid from Scranton with a father who like many of yours in tough economic times fell on hard...
Biden has been on the national stage so long that he was able to mount two credible runs for the presidency himself an amazing 20 years apart, in 1988 and 2008. He has served as chairman of both the Judiciary Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee, traveling the globe to...
Back up a few paragraphs and look again at something Obama wrote in his memoir. It's that passing reference to his mother living in a "'60s time warp." No presidential nominee since John F. Kennedy has so lightly dismissed those turbulent years. What could the Summer of Love have...