Quote:I expect him to do so, and I suspect there are many in positions of power in the Democratic Party pushing him to hurry up and enter the race before they disenfranchise die-hard Hillary voters and/or prompt them to look at options with an "I" or--God forbid--an "R" after their name. Biden was regarded as a fairly moderate politician in the Senate who leaned left on social issues and just right of center on financial issues. That perception has changed over the last eight years under President Obama, where he's been increasingly lumped in with (and forced to support) a platform that's gone further and further left as time passed, but he's still reputed as being a key force in getting the legislature behind Obama's plans, and is frequently the guy to reach across the aisle to the more moderate members of the Republican Party. It would be interesting to see him in debates and get a feel for how much of the last eight years is really his platform shifting left, and how much of it is his being obligated to support President Obama's platform.


Biden's 72 years old, so it's not like he has a bright political future to torpedo if he loses the primary to Bernie Sanders or Martin O'Malley in the primary. It's worth noting that if we were to see a Biden/Sanders ticket (won't happen, btw, but it's fun to play around like this), the combined age of candidate and running mate would be 149 years old. That's over half as old as the United States itself is.