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Nugen has experience working on conventions, serving as deputy chief operating officer for the 2000 convention in Los Angeles and lending a hand in Boston in 2004 from his perch as deputy national field director at the DNC, a post he assumed after working on Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman's failed bid. Nugen rose through the ranks at the DNC, ultimately becoming director of the chairman's office. He turned down a job helping to run the convention from the DNC side to work for the Obama campaign...
...older folks, who seem him as a star of their generation. "You want to pick somebody who complements you and strengthens you," says Dick Durbin, the senior senator from Illinois whom Obama consulted three weeks ago on a bus trip through Florida about the choice. "I'm glad that Joe will be sitting in the Oval Office working with Barack on the important decisions. He brings a wealth of experience...
...turned over the top spot on the ticket today to his new mentor," said McCain spokesman Ben Porritt) but the Republicans also alluded to Biden criticisms of Obama's campaign, when both were still rivals for the nomination. Said Porritt: "The reality is that nothing has changed since Joe Biden first made his assessment that Barack Obama is not ready to lead. He wasn't ready then and he isn't ready...
When presidential contenders pick their running mates, the choice is almost always a reflection of their own political weaknesses. And so it was with Barack Obama's selection of fellow Senator Joe Biden. More than Biden's obvious international expertise as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, what got Biden the job was his ability to connect with voters that Obama himself has had trouble winning over - and his willingness to throw a punch...
...whom Obama has had difficulty closing the sale: blue-collar workers and suburban female voters, whom Obama strategists hope will remember the fights Biden waged on the Senate Judiciary Committee against conservative judicial nominees and for legislation such as the bill that became the 1994 Violence Against Women Act. "Joe's about as good a messenger as we can get to those groups," Rendell says. "And once you've got a good messenger, the issues cut in our favor...