Ne-ver!

However, there should be no association between this malevolent relic, Biden, and my father's marvelous Oldsmobile.

He's just not the right guy for the time, and much of it is that his ideas are old, tired and lacking real vision.  Not to mention he's way too authoritarian, inauthentic when it comes to issues of income inequality, and he's carrying plenty of baggage that the media will happily unpack for him.

I hate how he's toyed with everyone, but can't he see that there is no groundswell of interest in a Biden candidacy?  

 Biden's candidacy adds little and, potentially, subtracts from both Sanders and Clinton--not just in slices of primary voters, but also, the capabilities for clear and distinct contrasts.  The campaigns of Clinton and Sanders have, so far, been civil in discourse and free of personal attacks, making for a stronger primary winner against the Republican du jour.

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Two national polls out Tuesday show former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton making significant gains against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), her chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, in the wake of last week's Democratic primary debate.

An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds that Clinton's standing among Democratic primary voters has improved by 7 percentage points in one month. At the same time, Sanders has dropped 6 points and Vice President Joe Biden, who has not actually said he intends to run for president, has dropped 2 points. Clinton now has 49 percent of the vote, Sanders has 29 percent and Biden has 15 percent. No other Democratic rival captures more than 2 percent.

Without Biden in the mix, Clinton's lead grows even wider against Sanders (58 percent to 33 percent).

Similarly, an ABC/Washington Post poll shows Clinton making a rebound at the cost of Sanders and Biden. The survey finds that Clinton has improved 12 points since September, while Sanders has dropped 1 point and Biden has fallen 5 points. Clinton now stands at 54 percent, Sanders at 23 percent and Biden at 16 percent.

Without Biden in the poll, Clinton jumps to 64 percent and Sander gets a slight bump to 25 percent.

The ABC/Post poll finds that Clinton's bump come mostly at the expense of Biden. She has gained 19 points among women and 18 points among white voters, people ages 50 and over and people who live in the suburbs.

There have been no Iowa polls since the 1st debate but there have been five in New Hampshire. The average of the five polls taken just prior to the NH debate had Sanders at +8.1. The five polls taken since the debate in NH have Clinton at +0.2.

I get Bernie staying in it, he has a policy agenda he's trying to push.   I get the young no-names staying in for more publicity and a greater political profile.  But Joe Biden?  What on earth does he have to gain from losing a presidential election, again.

Who'd have thunk it.

There have been 4 polls since the debate. An average of the 4 have Clinton at +23.5 over Sanders and +32.5 is over Biden.

But Biden gets to make his own choice. Just like Christie, or Fiorina, or Sanders. or Perry, or Chafee, or any of the number of others that have chosen to run knowing they are going to lose this cycle.

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden may not end up deciding to run for president, but he certainly sounded like a candidate on Tuesday.

Speaking at a forum in Washington honoring one of his predecessors, former Vice President Walter Mondale, Biden made several veiled digs at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and boasted of his close working relationship with President Barack Obama. At times, the vice president truly sounded as if he were on stage at a Democratic presidential debate -- either that, or he's just enjoying his time in the limelight.

For the second time this week, Biden implicitly knocked Clinton for saying at the first Democratic debate that she considered Republicans her "enemy."

"I don't think my chief enemy is the Republican Party. This is a matter of making things work," Biden said Tuesday. He touted his ability to work with congressional Republicans, saying, "Whenever there's a problem, I get sent to the Hill, which, by the way, is a useful use of my time."

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Biden also played up his foreign policy credentials and his close relationship with the president, which would both be potential advantages over Clinton.

Reprising an argument he makes frequently, the vice president noted that Obama trusted him to represent the country abroad.

"We've had two great secretaries of state. But when I go [overseas], they know I am speaking for the president," he said.

Biden also boasted that he spends four to seven hours with Obama per day.

"I attend every meeting the president has. I didn't ask to do that. At his request!" he said.

The vice president also displayed his well-known tendency to speak his mind. When the conversation turned to former Vice President Dick Cheney, who is almost universally reviled among Democrats, Biden said he viewed him favorably.

"I actually like Dick Cheney, for real," he said. "I think he's a decent man."

But after Mondale pushed back, arguing that Cheney had taken the vice presidency to the "dark side," Biden quickly walked back his remark, claiming there was "no similarity" between Cheney's record and his own.

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1. Clinton's chances of winning 49 states in the primary just skyrocketed.

2. Draft Biden heads to the unemployment line.

So I am sure most people know that today is BTTF day, because in Back to the Future II, the date for going back to the future was 10.21.2015

OK so we sort of have hoverboards, but we definitely don't have flying cars, we still need roads, Doc.