It's a bit hard for candidates not named Bill Richardson to break through with gaffes these days. He's just so much better at them than everyone else! But Tom Schaller reminds us of a better, simpler time, when Joe Biden was talking, and the rest of us were laughing:
In the current primary season, only Delaware Sen. Joe Biden has bothered to make so much as a feint toward the Bubba vote, with an absurd analogy between his home state and the South. In January, when pressed by "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace on how a "Northeastern liberal like Joe Biden" hoped to compete in South Carolina, the senator responded: "You don't know my state. My state was a slave state ... My state is anything [but] a Northeast liberal state." Biden's comment left Southern politics expert Merle Black scratching his head. "That's just really quite bizarre," the Emory professor told the Wilmington News Journal. "That's not how you appeal to Southern voters."
Delaware: The Alabama of the Northeast.
