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Joe Biden is a Democratic senator who has represented Delaware since 1972 and is the candidate for vice president on the ticket with Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. Biden has served as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as a member of the Senate Democratic Steering and Coordination Committee and Senate National Security Working Group. He grew up in New Castle County, Del. Biden graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965 and from the Syracuse University College of Law in 1968. Before being elected to the Senate, Biden practiced law in Wilmington.
Joe Biden is a Democratic senator who has represented Delaware since 1972 and is the candidate for vice president on the ticket with Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. Biden has served as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as a member of the Senate Democratic Steering and Coordination Committee and Senate National Security Working Group. He grew up in New Castle County, Del. Biden graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965 and from the Syracuse University College of Law in 1968. Before being elected to the Senate, Biden practiced law in Wilmington.
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Today's Buzz: Is Biden an asset for Obama?
Orlando Sentinel Editorial BoardDebate has picked up lately over whether Vice President Joe Biden is an asset for President Barack Obama as he runs for re-election. A Gallup poll showed slightly more Americans disapprove than approve of him. Biden embarrassed Obama this month when he...Tags: Politics, Hillary Clinton, Same-Sex Marriage, Elections, Barack Obama
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Search for Romney running mate in audition phase
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney’s vice presidential search has entered a new phase: auditions. As his campaign evaluates potential running mates, Republicans with a possible shot at the No. 2 spot on the presidential ticket are starting to...
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Obama touts American exceptionalism in speech
The Washington PostCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- President Barack Obama sent 1,000 Air Force Academy cadets into active duty Wednesday by laying out his vision for a postwar America in which the United States leads beyond the battlefield and defiantly challenging his critics'...Tags: Politics, Bashar Assad, West Point, Iraq War (2003-2011), Elections
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Obama team's Axelrod shows how to stay on message in Maddow interview
A presidential campaign is never just two people slugging it out on the national stage. It is always a battle of narratives, and the struggle, when all is said and done, is over which candidate can craft the most persuasive story. For Mitt Romney, the...
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Which kind of capitalism? A debate for Obama and Romney
"This is not a distraction, this is what this campaign is going to be about," President Obama said Monday at the NATO summit. The "this" in question is Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital and what it says about Romney's economic vision for the country....
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Joe Biden says GOP stymied 'progress' in boosting economy
It's come to this: Joe Biden compared Mitt Romney to a horse. The vice president, campaigning in New Hampshire on Tuesday, argued that Romney has it wrong when he tells voters that things "have gotten much worse" and that Obama administration policies...Tags: Politics, Solyndra LLC, Elections, George Bush, Bain Capital, LLC
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Generational nonsense at commencement time
This is the season of generational twaddle. At graduation ceremonies across the country, politicians, authors, actors and businessmen take to the stage to tell young people they are fantastic simply because they are young. This year, the ritual is more...
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Poll: Obama, Romney split on top economic issues
President Obama beats Mitt Romney on controlling healthcare costs, Romney wins on dealing with the deficit, and they are essentially tied on who can better attack unemployment, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll that assesses how voters view the two...Tags: Politics, Health Insurance Cost, Republican Party, Mitt Romney, Parties and Movements
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Q&A: Political experts chime in on vice-presidential contenders
dbrock@amnews.comWith a Democrat incumbent and a Republican field winnowed down to one real contender, today’s presidential primary will be largely a formality for many area voters. The real intrigue is who Mitt Romney, the likely Republican presidential nominee,...Tags: University of Virginia, U.S. Electoral College, Culture, Colleges and Universities, Sarah Palin
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Democratic legislators visit Sunrise company, tout jobs policy
— Scores of industrial-size rolls of bubble wrap, miles of packing tape and more than 5 million cardboard boxes fill A&M Tape & Packaging, and on Monday they became the symbol of a potent political issue: American manufacturing jobs. Started in...
Tags: Ted Deutch, Politics, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations
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Gays may have the fastest of all civil rights movements
SAN FRANCISCO — In 1958, the Gallup Poll asked Americans whether they approved or disapproved of marriage between blacks and whites. The response was overwhelming: 94% were opposed, a sentiment that held for decades. It took nearly 40 years until...
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Super PACs: How did the Supreme Court not see this coming?
Maybe what this country needs on the Supreme Court is a real politician or at least a sensible political scientist or two. Perhaps they would help the court's majority understand how it has allowed unlimited big-donor money to contaminate and almost...
Tags: Politics, Abraham Lincoln, Jeremiah Wright, John Kerry, Mitt Romney
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