Created Sun 23rd Nov 2008 10pm PST by 
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Who will be the Democratic VP candidate in 2012?
Background: In 2008 the Democratic VP nominee and winner was Joe Biden, the running mate of Barack Obama. In 2012, will Joe Biden still be Obama's running mate? Some have conjectured that Hillary Clinton may have taken the job of Secretary of State only after getting the off-the-record promise that she'd be Obama's running mate in 2012. There's also the (remote) possibility that someone else will be at the top of the ticket, with Obama as the VP.
Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source. This will be settled whenever the Democratic VP nominee is officially announced, presumably in the weeks before the 2012 Democratic convention.
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- Predictions: 65 |
Comments: 6
Suspend date: Thu 1st Nov 2012 3:59pm PST (2 years to go)
Initial likelihoods: Joe Biden: 70%, Hillary Clinton: 27%, Barack Obama: 1%, Sarah Palin: 1%, Someone else: 1%
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Created Sun 23rd Nov 2008 10pm PST by neuronexmachina
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Suspend date: Thu 1st Nov 2012 3:59pm PST (2 years to go) details 
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predicted Someone else (H$20 at 23%)
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predicted Someone else (H$100 at 14%)
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predicted Joe Biden (H$5,500 at 65%)
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/01/joe-biden-update.html
Everybody should just relax and take it easy.
Unsubstantiated rumors that Vice President Joe Biden had suddenly gone a little loopy and ordered some of his official meetings opened to at least cursory public or media attention were just that -- unsubstantiated rumors.
After a recent public sighting, fears had mounted that the one-time, long-term senator might rebel against traditional White House strictures and start acting on all the administration's oft-promised promises of government transparency and official openness running back into 2008.
But the VP's public schedule today puts all those fears to rest.
In fact, loyal Ticket readers will recall that one day last summer with no advance warning whatsoever Biden's official White House schedule changed from listing frequent "private meetings" to listing frequent meetings that are "closed press." Was this dramatic and....
...little-noticed vocabulary change a sign of internal administration turmoil? What did it really mean?
No, of course not. And, nothing.
Announcing everyone the VP meets with, including sessions with unidentified senior staff, which consume much of the vice president's listed time, and what subjects they talk about would have been a stark contrast to George W. Bush's administration, whose notoriously secretive ways drew such criticism from Democrats in Congress during eight long years of really failed policies.
Instead, in the apparent interests of bipartisanship, the Delaware Democrat has adopted much the same sort of undetailed schedule as his Republican predecessor, Dick Cheney, who was not in the Senate when Obama was only 11 years old.
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