People hated Hillary. She was an unlikable, unpersonable, entitled bitch that an awful lot of people would not have voted for her if you put a gun in their mouth. Biden is a gaffe machine, but he doesn't come off that way. It's not even close between those two in terms of the likeability factor.
In addition, she ran a shit campaign, totally ignoring some midwest states over the objections of Bill and others on her team, because she was overconfident. After Hillary's loss, I doubt very much that Biden will make the same mistakes of overconfidence and ignoring some very important states, which cost Hillary the election, IMO.
This is a different race. Trump has some things on his side for sure, and if the economy holds he has some powerful arguments for re-election, but I wouldn't discount Biden at this point. He's the only one, to me, out of all the dems running that has much of a shot....
Agree, but who has the better odds of getting the dem nomination? If Joe gets the nomination will the base be "excited" to run out and vote for him? Its like the problem the GOP has with the never-Trumpers, but in spades...
I think Biden gets the nomination, unless someone else not crazy gets in the race, as right now, the whole rest of the field is a bunch of utter loons. That Biden is the sanest is hilarious, as he's got a whiff of walnuts about him too on some things, but it seems to me to be the case.
He'll also raise an absolutely monstrous amount of money, which won't hurt his chances either.
I don't know that there is a #NeverJoe movement yet. I actually think he has an advantage over Trump in this case, as, much like Hillary, there are a lot of people that simply won't vote for him under any circumstances. I'm not sure that's true about Biden.