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Biden reaction from local lawmakers
It wasn’t yet 9 a.m. before local lawmakers and political analysts began weighing in on Sen. Barack Obama’s vice-presidential pick, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del.
“He was one of my top choices,” said state Rep. Clayton Luckie, D-Dayton, who said Biden’s foreign policy credentials - he is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - will help seal up concerns about Obama’s foreign policy experience.
Luckie also cited Biden’s more than 30 years in the Senate as helping shore up concerns about Obama’s relatively short tenure there. He predicted a “humungous” bump in the polls as a result of Obama’s pick. “This is going to be such a positive thing - it’s going to bump Sen. Obama so far that McCain will never catch up.”
Chris Duncan, chair of the political science department at the University of Dayton, said Biden’s working-class credentials would help attract some of the Democrats who had initially preferred Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. over Obama. He also cited Biden’s experience as a plus for Obama.
“This is a good solid pick for him,” Duncan said.
But former U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, McCain’s Ohio chair, pointed to comments Biden made during the Democratic primary questioning Obama’s experience. McCain’s campaign leapt on those comments Saturday morning, quickly sending out a commercial emphasizing those comments.
“I think the Obama campaign has a problem,” DeWine said, saying Biden’s comments are “rather embarrassing for the campaign.”
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