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Title: is Obama automatically obliged to support/campaign for Biden? Post by: © tweed on October 13, 2012, 05:35:12 PM is Obama automatically obliged to support/campaign for Biden?
Title: Re: is Obama automatically obliged to support/campaign for Biden? Post by: BM on October 13, 2012, 05:46:24 PM Obama wins: doesn't care who the next Democratic nominee is
Obama loses: doesn't care who the next Democratic nominee is unless he decides to run again himself Title: Re: is Obama automatically obliged to support/campaign for Biden? Post by: Mr. Morden on October 13, 2012, 07:00:53 PM No, not at all. Obama won't endorse anyone in the 2016 primaries.
Title: Re: is Obama automatically obliged to support/campaign for Biden? Post by: Sol on October 14, 2012, 09:01:40 PM Nope.
Title: Re: is Obama automatically obliged to support/campaign for Biden? Post by: The Ex-Factor on October 15, 2012, 09:19:20 AM Quote Obama, in the words of one Democratic panjandrum, “couldn’t possibly be more disengaged from the question of party succession—he just doesn’t give a sh**t.” Title: Re: is Obama automatically obliged to support/campaign for Biden? Post by: hcallega on October 15, 2012, 12:10:46 PM Presidents rarely get too involved in the succession process. If there's an open primary, than Obama would do more harm than good if he intervened. That would be especially the case if both Biden AND Clinton run. Both are members of his cabinet, and both would be entitled some degree of support. Therefore, he probably wouldn't give support to either candidate to prevent any sort of blowback from the other.
Title: Re: is Obama automatically obliged to support/campaign for Biden? Post by: © tweed on October 15, 2012, 12:47:43 PM Presidents rarely get too involved in the succession process. If there's an open primary, than Obama would do more harm than good if he intervened. when's the last time a sitting president did not endorse his VP? Title: Re: is Obama automatically obliged to support/campaign for Biden? Post by: © tweed on October 15, 2012, 12:48:53 PM wow it looks like Reagan did not until May 1988.
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/12/us/reagan-endorses-bush-as-successor.html of course Obama will be thinking lucidly and making his own decisions. Title: Re: is Obama automatically obliged to support/campaign for Biden? Post by: Mr. Morden on October 15, 2012, 06:07:47 PM wow it looks like Reagan did not until May 1988. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/12/us/reagan-endorses-bush-as-successor.html of course Obama will be thinking lucidly and making his own decisions. 1988 and 2000 are the only two examples you have under the modern primary system, where a sitting VP ran for president. And in 2000, the entire party establishment was behind Gore, in a way that wouldn't happen with Biden. |