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Extra! Extra! Read All About It: Joe Biden Leads the Newspaper Pack

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Biden beats the press

Good news from the Biden campaign. Luis Navarro, presidential campaign manager for Joe Biden, sent an email to supporters on October 22, 2007 claiming the first newspaper endorsement of any Democratic candidate this ‘08 election cycle:

BREAKING NEWS: Joe Biden First Democrat to Receive Newspaper Endorsement

I write with exciting news today — the latest evidence that our efforts on the ground in Iowa are working.
The Storm Lake Times endorsed Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination for president making Joe Biden the first Democrat nationally and in Iowa to have received a newspaper endorsement for president.

The Storm Lake Times concluded, “Biden is our choice for the nomination for the powerful personal story he shares, for his deep knowledge of international affairs, and for his long record of exemplary service in the United States Senate.” We’ve included the full endorsement below.

A national exhale of executive branch exasperation has created a wind behind the backs of the Democratic presidential field this election cycle. With several viable Democratic candidates to choose from, animated primary voters who understand we can’t afford another Republican president are placing their bets on who can best the GOP nominee next year.

So far Sen. Hillary Clinton’s display of strength during wartime has propelled her to the top of the Democratic polls, a full 20 points ahead of her closest challenger, Sen. Barack Obama.

This election cycle the Democrats are sick to death (sometimes literally) thanks to President Bush, and animated. The historic significance of Hillary Clinton’s gender, and Barack Obama and Gov. Bill Richardson’s race makes this an even more exciting time for the U.S. political party with the largest tent.

Even so, Sen. Joe Biden stands out from the pack, not for his biology or newness, but for his depth of foreign policy experience at a time when a doyen leader most needed.

With less buzz and money than the leading Democratic candidates, Biden has been focusing his efforts on Iowa arguing that ideas trump campaign coffers.

Joe Biden: The Iowa Factor

Biden has been using targeted focus and new technologies to win over the Iowa electorate, but according to polls he needs to step it up a notch. Fed up with incompetent Republicans, Democrats and others are concerned about the electability of the Democratic nominee and Biden needs to play his electability trump card. And soon.

Republican frontrunner Rudolph Giuliani’s has bluffed his way to the top of the polls since day one spouting his “I’m best suited to defeat Hillary” warcry. Biden needs to take a look at Rudy’s playbook and intercept. As written in a previous article, Biden needs to repeat the mantra “I’m the most electable” till his face turns blue.

Biden’s electability and presidential attributes are duly noted in this except from the Storm Lake Times endorsement:

How electable is Biden? How electable is a woman, or a man of color? Biden is somewhere south of 5% support among likely Democratic caucus-goers in Iowa. Remember that Jimmy Carter and John Kerry came out of nowhere. Polls can change quickly with such a small sample. The results are inevitable only if we place our bet with the big money and big machines. Biden has neither. He has a world view of America as an idea, a desire to restore our core values of freedom with shared responsibility, and a pragmatic view of foreign relations that seeks to bring nations together to find solutions short of misguided and ineffective wars.

We also find Biden to be a person of integrity. When he last ran for president 20 years ago, Biden lifted a line from a British politician’s speech — whether conscious or not. Biden did not run and hide and deny and hedge. We recall it as if it were yesterday. In Davenport, he immediately admitted he was wrong, quit the race and thanked Iowans for their patience with him. We will never forget the classy way in which he ended that race. What appeared to be his major political foible is to us one of his strengths: humility, and a surprising lack of vanity. That’s something we’ve been lacking with the current occupant of the White House.

It’s hard to go wrong with any of the candidates. We stand with Joe Biden because he has all the professional skills and, more important, the personal strength to get the job done unlike any other candidate.

With the most sensible plan for the insane situation in Iraq, the clout to take on President Bush’s top general, a campaign based on telling truth to the American people, and time to play his electability hand, Joe Biden could just be the one to beat.

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