re: #309 Vicious Piebola

Joe Biden is the only Democrat who has a chance of taking it away from Hillary.

But we don’t know. Obama just came out of freaking NOWHERE.

Not really; Obama’s 2004 keynote gave the anyone-but-hillary crowd someone to coalesce around. The Kossacks were hugely in his favor, turned up to his book signings in droves, begged him to run, it was practically a draft. Add in that Axelrod and his staff were very, very good at their jobs, and Mark Penn really wasn’t…

In a year that was pre-determined (for Bush reasons) to be a Dem landslide…