If Biden gets in:

[Schema Thing]

It helps Bernie, or hurts Bernie? What's everyone thinking wrt this?

[JackInGreen]

1. Helps bernie

Rollin joe may be sweet but hes as big a third way-er as she is

[retrowire]

2. All those FOR Bernie

Are not the types looking for a Biden.


I DO have one coworker who really likes Bernie and dislikes Hillary, and would like Biden to run. But he's in the camp of hoping Bernie will win, but has doubts that he could.

[winter is coming]

3. I think he'd siphon off some of Hillary's support, so it would help Bernie.

I don't think Biden will really enter the race, though.

[Hiraeth]

4. It will take away from HRC thus helping Bernie. I think Joe needs to stay out. It is time to start

culling the field. Chaffee and Webb also need to drop out gracefully and endorse either O'Malley, Clinton or Sanders.

Narrowing down the Dem side just makes The Repubs look even more unorganized.

[tularetom]

5. He's turned off so many people with his ridiculous little will-he-or-won't-he drama

That I doubt that he would have any effect on anybody's chances at this point.

[LiberalElite]

9. Yes - now he reminds me of NY Gov. Mario Cuomo who considered running for

president in 1992. He took so long some called him "Hamlet on the Hudson":

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/25/nyregion/political-memo-political-memo-a-cuomo-bid-or-a-hamlet-on-hudson.html


New York Magazine has provided this timeline of how long Biden can continue to delay declaring and still have a viable path:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/10/how-late-can-joe-biden-enter-the-race.html

[cpompilo]

6. The Anyone-But-Hillary establishment types will flock to Biden

plus Biden is more likable than Hillary. Conclusion: Bernie would take a small hit and Hillary would be the big loser.

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. Joe and Hillary are cut from the same cloth. He takes votes away from The Hillary. n/t

[leftcoastmountains]

8. I've come to the conclusion he's not going to run.

Period end of story.

[LiberalElite]

10. I would think it hurts HRC nt

[Stardust]

11. I have this wild suspicion that Biden is being encouraged to run by the Establishment Dems to stay

in while the electorate begins to pay attention, but to drop out after he's garnered support, presumably from many who would have supported Bernie if they'd been paying attention. Then Biden will ask all his supporters to shift their support to Hillary. The Establishment is afraid of the Bernie momentum and they might just convince Biden that he's saving the country, or some such nonsense. So even though Biden won't be president, he'll still be a hero.