What's the Biggest Thing Biden Adds to the Ticket?

[rucky]

Poll question: What's the Biggest Thing Biden Adds to the Ticket?

Age and experience?
FoPo expertise?
Ability to swing voters?
Balance out some of McCain's attacks?
Ability to pick up any states?
Launch some attacks of his own?

Obama's campaign needed more cowbell. We got it with Biden!

[RedShoes]

1. gravitas. nt

[mtpnbc]

2. Experience, wisdom, mainstream on the political spectrum -- everything that'll make him a good

leader.

[spooky3]

3. wit, even though he sometimes steps in it

plus all of the above

[PATRICK]

4. To cover all the most important

points he adds a strong, actual foreign policy and its voice to the campaign. Obama has been always made to look bad in waiting to speak out. In a brilliant division of labor that the public can witness carrying over to the actual administration Biden can be a second Obama voice right to the fake heart of McSame's "strength". This is the best positioning of a Veep. It could be argued that Edwards brought a lot and was muted out of such a strong contribution. It will be an incredibly lost opportunity if Biden does not exploit this extraordinary advantage which is no threat to the perception of Obama's leadership or charisma. I sense this has the immediate potential to be the best and most significant Veep choice ever for a campaign and a very wise one for an actual WH team. This is not enthusiastic hyperbole. Biden could be the death kneel of the GOP political trump cards.

And the future death knell of sweeping election fraud if his voice is heard on that as well.

[livvy]

5. This should help undecideds in Michigan make their choice for the Dem ticket.

Obama has 7-point lead on McCain in Michigan
But lead is shaky: 31% say they could change minds
BY CHRIS CHRISTOFF • FREE PRESS LANSING BUREAU CHIEF • August 22, 2008

From the article:

"Independents, women and Wayne County voters helped boost Democrat Barack Obama to a 7-point lead over Republican John McCain in the presidential race in Michigan, according to a Detroit Free Press-Local 4 Michigan Poll conducted this week."

Obama leads in Detroit, but outside the metro area they are pretty much tied. Obama leads among independents, women, and younger voters, but...

" McCain holds a 13-point lead among Catholic voters. Protestants are evenly split, although evangelicals favor McCain by 2-1." and " McCain leads among white voters statewide, 46%-38%."

His choice of Biden could have an impact on these two categories of voters.

Woot...woot....Michigan for Obama/Biden!



http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080822/NEWS15/308220001

[femmocrat]

6. Other: The common touch:

Man of the people
Not an elitist
Compelling life story

etc, etc, etc

[rucky]

8. that's cowbell.

[Geek_Girl]

7. I think He'll be an asset in picking up Independents

nt

[rucky]

9. kick

[undeterred]

10. Substance.

Obama needs more of it.