Teflon Joe: Alleged gaffe gives Biden boost in poll [View all]
Cable TV pundits and Seattle's Facebook liberals have been aghast at ex-Vice President Joe Biden's ode to "civility" and recollection that he worked in the 1970's with arch-segregationist Southern Sens. James Eastland and Herman Talmadge.
"Do people honestly think this guy is electable?" asked 34th District Democratic activist Ivan Weiss.
Ezra Eickmeyer, a consultant, thundered: "Joe Biden has been at the center of some of the nation's most reprehensible decisions and policies for decades."
One problem for the anti-Biden left. The alleged gaffe about working with Dixiecrat Southerners has actually helped Biden with ordinary voters.
Nor do other alleged gaffes, like being a toucher of women on the dais or Biden's flip-flop on the Hyde Amendment, seem to have hurt him.
A Politico/Morning Consult survey asked voters whether the Eastland-Talmadge story would make any difference, or make them more or less likely to vote for Biden.
The results: 41% of those polled said it would make no difference. Eighteen percent said they would be less likely to vote for Joe. But 29% answered that they would would be more likely to support Biden.
Two prominent African-American members of Congress -- Reps. James Clyburn, D-South Carolina, and John Lewis, D-Georgia -- have come to Biden's defense. Clyburn has even recalled instances when he worked with the late arch-segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond.
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If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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