2008 roundup: Biden takes Edwards seriously

Once every few weeks I will run through the most note-worthy political news regarding the 2008 race.  With the midterms just more than two months away, we have every reason to be almost entirely focused on the fate of the Legislative Branch.  But every now and then, I will preview the 2008 Democratic primary race, which is still wide open.

Here is the latest from the campaign trail:

• One year ago, Senator Joe Biden (D-Delaware) said that he would test the waters to for a possible presidential run.  As of this moment, it appears as though he will definitely run.  He spent the last couple of weeks in Iowa.  This weekend he is in South Carolina, a state where John Edwards is favored.  In an AP article that covered Biden's South Carolina trip, the Senator from Delaware was quoted saying that Edwards is a goner if he doesn't win that state.  "If John loses South Carolina, he's done," Biden said.  However, Biden was not trash-talking.  In fact, he has a great deal of respect for Edwards.  Biden said that "John is a real player" and he does "take John real seriously."  According to a different article one week ago, Biden said that he and his family had a talk around Christmas of 2004, and they all signed on to the commitment.  The last time Joe Biden ran for president was in 1988.
• Mark Warner spent last weekend in New Hampshire getting an early start on the campaigning.  Yesterday that trip paid off as The Daily Press, a Virginia newspaper, touted his pledge to campaign in New Hampshire if the state decides to defy the DNC and move its primary to an earlier date.
• Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, a Republican, is considering the idea of running for president in 2008.  But an Opinion Research Associates of Little Rock poll finds that Arkansans would favor both Hillary Clinton and Wesley Clark over Huckabee.  Clinton got the better of Huckabee by a 49% to 36% margin.  Wesley Clark received even better numbers, beating Huckabee 51% to 37%.
• Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold is scheduled to address the Chicago Bar on Monday.
• The Daily Nation, a Kenyan newspaper, is fantasizing about Hillary Clinton possibly choosing Barack Obama as her running mate.
• According to Sunday's Washington Post, Evan Bayh is strengthening ties with New Hampshire Governor John Lynch and Iowa Gubernatorial candidate Chet Culver.  "Bayh's fundraising gambit is the latest evidence of his innovativeapproach to courting the activists essential to the 2008 nominatingprocess," the newspaper wrote for Sunday.

More 2008 campaign news in a few weeks, or when a major story breaks.

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Comments

[george lutz]

Wow - Clinton would need Obama to have any chance in the general election. Otherwise, she'll just get killed because she stands for just about nothing significant. Where is Al Gore though - he will be heard from, right!

And why am i the only one who posts here? This is such a great blog!