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I admire Bernie's passion, but he's just not going to be considered a serious candidate. What he may end up doing, however, is ultimately elevate Elizabeth Warren, since they share the hardcore populist message, and that could shake things up.
Definitely, I hope he runs. It would be fascinating to see Hillary have to balance the more hawkish military stance she's taking and her more establishment background with the populist, "the rich are evil" message of Warren and Sanders.
Sure would be more interesting than watching the GOP field try to out-crazy each other, holy crap.
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It's good for the Democratic Party, or any major party, to have vigorous primaries. It generally increases voter interest and also, more importantly, voter registration. See: the epic DEM nomination battle of 2008 and then see that Obama scored 10.5 million more votes in the 2008 GE than Kerry got in Bush's successful 2004 re-election.
That being said, we have never, ever seen a candidate scoring this high on party nomination polling this early in the game. Regardless of how some Righties may want to try to spin it, Clinton is at between 65-70% in most all nomination polling, with margins over Biden of between +40 and +60. Those are, for all intents and purposes, insurmountable margins.
So, yeah, there should be a challenger to Hillary, or two or three, and then she will pretty much have the nomination sowed-up by April 2016 at the latest.
I have no doubt that the GOP field of prospective candidates is going to be far larger and far more racous. This is not unusual for an opposition party after a 2nd term from the "other" party.
The GOP had anywhere from 5-12 SERIOUS political nominee's I thought would be president in 2016. They sold the people last election and wondered if it might happen again next election. We are no where near next election and most of them already sold the people. Since all politicians are stupid and bias the only ones I take seriously now are Rand Paul and Chris Christie, accepting their possible GAF's mistakes. Rubio went full "Obama wants to take all your guns away" which was the most idiotic thing I've heard ever, he must be fixated on Fox News like Ted Cruz.
I don't think anybody anywhere is voting for Joe Biden.
I think even Joe Biden knows that.
Depends.
Joe Biden absolutely SPANKED Paul Ryan's little butt in the Foreign Policy debate last election.
If we have to vote "worse of the two" again, I may vote Biden.
Indeed, with "malarky", Biden did well in that debate.He's a smart man and was one of the more calming and sane forces in the Senate in his day. I would not rule out Biden. For his age, he is in excellent health and he is an active, vigorous person. Only, I don't think he is going to jump into the ring.