Who does Obama endorse

[The Free North]

Say Hillary and Biden are locked in a tight race into next spring. Who (if at all) does Obama endorse?

I would think he has to throw his support behind his VP...

[Donald Trump 2016 !]

If he chooses to endorse somebody, it's gonna be Biden.

[The Other Castro]

The winner.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

If he chooses to endorse somebody, it's gonna be Biden.

[Mehmentum]

He won't endorse, not until a clear winner is decided.

[Skye]

Biden may be his guy, but if he doesn't stand a chance against Hillary, I see no reason for an endorsement.

[An American Tail: Fubart Goes West]

He won't endorse, not until a clear winner is decided.

I'm guessing that he'll endorse the candidate in mid-April or so.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Obama will not make an endorsement until it is clear that one candidate or the other is clearly, without a doubt, going to win the nomination, and WOULD win the nomination no matter what he does.  What Obama could not afford would be for a Presidential candidate to have obtained the nomination by virtue of his endorsement; that would earn him the enmity of the supporters of that other candidate and negatively impact the tone of the Democratic campaign in the fall. 

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

His endorsement will be gold for Biden in SC. Hopes he choses to do so, so IL can join with them.

[Kingpoleon]

If he chooses to endorse somebody, it's gonna be Biden.

Agreed.

Also, Biden has a clear path to the nomination. Getting second in Iowa and first in South Carolina with Sanders winning New Hampshire? A three-way Democratic primaries is far more likely to go to the Convention than five or six serious Republicans(Bush, Walker, Rubio, Huckabee, Paul, and Kasich).

[Landslide Lyndon]

He won't endorse, not until a clear winner is decided.

That. All sitting presidents did the same and whoever thinks differently he is talking out of his ass.

[Donald Trump 2016 !]

He won't endorse, not until a clear winner is decided.

That. All sitting presidents did the same and whoever thinks differently he is talking out of his ass.

http://lubbockonline.com/stories/121299/nat_121299048.shtml#.Vb6jrKgViko

[Donerail]

He won't endorse, not until a clear winner is decided.

That. All sitting presidents did the same and whoever thinks differently he is talking out of his ass.

http://lubbockonline.com/stories/121299/nat_121299048.shtml#.Vb6jrKgViko

Pretty sure a clear winner was decided at the time of that Clinton endorsement - Gore was facing only token opposition from his left, nothing that would seriously contest his path to the nomination.

[Landslide Lyndon]

He won't endorse, not until a clear winner is decided.

That. All sitting presidents did the same and whoever thinks differently he is talking out of his ass.

http://lubbockonline.com/stories/121299/nat_121299048.shtml#.Vb6jrKgViko

Pretty sure a clear winner was decided at the time of that Clinton endorsement - Gore was facing only token opposition from his left, nothing that would seriously contest his path to the nomination.

Don't ruin their wet dreams of a competitive Dem primary with facts.

[Donald Trump 2016 !]

He won't endorse, not until a clear winner is decided.

That. All sitting presidents did the same and whoever thinks differently he is talking out of his ass.

http://lubbockonline.com/stories/121299/nat_121299048.shtml#.Vb6jrKgViko

Pretty sure a clear winner was decided at the time of that Clinton endorsement - Gore was facing only token opposition from his left, nothing that would seriously contest his path to the nomination.

Don't ruin their wet dreams of a competitive Dem primary with facts.

Ah yes. Those pesky facts about Hillary being so corrupt that even with huge establishment support plus raking in huge sums of money her main opponent, a socialist, has managed to surge in the polls despite having significantly less money than her. The fact that her aides are worried about Biden, a man nobody seriously considered until recently, jumping into the race.

Hillary is starting to implode. Every Democrat will attack her in the debates, Don't be surprised if Obama, who has bad blood with the Clintons from 2008, chooses to endorse Biden to keep an establishment Democrat in power over Sanders.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Ah yes. Those pesky facts about Hillary being so corrupt that even with huge establishment support plus raking in huge sums of money her main opponent, a socialist, has managed to surge in the polls despite having significantly less money than her. The fact that her aides are worried about Biden, a man nobody seriously considered until recently, jumping into the race.

Hillary is starting to implode. Every Democrat will attack her in the debates, Don't be surprised if Obama, who has bad blood with the Clintons from 2008, chooses to endorse Biden to keep an establishment Democrat in power over Sanders.

And that's my friends a prime example of the dreaded CDS.
Clinton Deranged Syndrome.

[Donald Trump 2016 !]

When a socialist who has less than a dollar for every four dollars you've raised and has nowhere near the amount of endorsements and establishment backing you have causes your poll numbers to decrease for over three months straight, I think you have a problem.

[Landslide Lyndon]

OMG!!! Hillary's numbers have crashed. She is now beating Sanders ONLY by 38 points.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

OMalley was suppose to challenge Hilary. But, biden can win, too.

[Donald Trump 2016 !]

OMG!!! Hillary's numbers have crashed. She is now beating Sanders ONLY by 38 points.

I know. Just wait till a real establishment supported Democrat who's not a socialist gets in the race. Hillary won't be looking too pretty soon.

[The Free North]

OMG!!! Hillary's numbers have crashed. She is now beating Sanders ONLY by 38 points.

I know. Just wait till a real establishment supported Democrat who's not a socialist gets in the race. Hillary won't be looking too pretty soon.

Basically, we need to see how much of her support is really solidified. If a viable alternative shows up, will people flee her?

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

The winner.

[Lincoln Republican]

Obama will only endorse a candidate once that candidate has won the nomination.

[Lincoln Republican]

There is absolutely no way whatsoever that Obama would endorse Clinton before the nomination has been locked up- you don't treat your Vice President that way.

Unless you're Eisenhower.

During the 1960 Presidential election, a reporter asked Eisenhower if he could give an example of a major idea of Nixon's that he had heeded. Eisenhower responded with the flip comment, "If you give me a week, I might think of one." (Wiki)

[President Johnson]

There is absolutely no way whatsoever that Obama would endorse Clinton before the nomination has been locked up- you don't treat your Vice President that way.

Unless you're Eisenhower.

During the 1960 Presidential election, a reporter asked Eisenhower if he could give an example of a major idea of Nixon's that he had heeded. Eisenhower responded with the flip comment, "If you give me a week, I might think of one." (Wiki)

Not endorsing Nixon would have been many times worse...

This was more a joke. Ike did not want JFK as his sucessor. Both men disliked each other.