Like many people I wondered if Joe Biden was a good choice for Barack Obama. However after reading a CNN article which analyzes the first national poll taken after Obama’s selection of Biden I don't think so. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/24/election.2008.poll/index.html

Each day this debacle known as the Democratic nomination drags on, it is only serving one purpose, to enhance John McCain's campaign, further divide the Democratic party, and run any chance the Dems have of retaing 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in November.

This campaign is running like a broken record playing the same tune over and over and over. Let's see, the "controversy" of the week is Barack Obama saying that blue collar Pennsylvanians are bitter, “[I]t’s not surprising, then, that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations".