Joe Trippi, who's been watching Biden orate his way through Iowa since 1988, gives his take. If you want more on Biden in 1988, and the strange intensity of the campaign when he was the hot young insurgent, you should sit down with Richard Ben Cramer's history of the 1988 campaign, What It Takes
. Long, but also the best book on any campaign ever written. . Long, but also the best book on any campaign ever written.
