Word: mate
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...Biden's gaffe made him an unlikely running mate, and much will be made of the bridge-building that Obama's choice represents. But in the end, Obama picked him for the simplest of reasons: The six-term Senator from Delaware is strongest in areas where the freshman from Illinois is weakest. Biden's tenure in the Senate, his foreign policy expertise, his religion, and his suburban middle-class background, all fill gaps in Obama's own presidential profile...
...measure of how badly the last month has gone for the once high-flying Obama campaign that they're willing to risk taking on board a shoot-from-the-lip running mate like Biden. And in a race that is growing tighter with every poll, that risk could make a real difference - for better or for worse...
...Biden's biggest edge in the homestretch may have come, paradoxically, from his greatest liability: his personality. Obama is charismatic, but in tough political confrontations he can be cautious and reserved. A running mate who can add passion to the coming battles, Biden has a fire-in-the-belly quality Obama lacks. That spunk first vaulted Biden to the Senate by a narrow margin in 1972 over an aging incumbent, and it also gave him an edge over the more sedate finalists for the ticket, Indiana's Evan Bayh and Virginia's Tim Kaine...
Introducing his newly-minted running mate, Barack Obama had a slip of the tongue. "Let me introduce you to the next President... the next Vice President of the United States of America," Obama told a crowd of 35,000 yesterday on the steps to the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, the same site where Obama announced his bid for the White House. The crowd laughed but, in many ways, Obama was telling the truth. The choice of Biden was meant to complete the Presidential candidate...
...days before Barack Obama was to announce his choice for Vice President, he was asked at a North Carolina town meeting what qualities he wanted in a running mate. He wandered through a derisive, if desultory, critique of Dick Cheney, then switched gears. "I want somebody ... who shares with me a passion to make the lives of the American people better than they are right now," he said. "I want somebody who is mad right now that people are losing their jobs." And I immediately thought...