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On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Joshua Alcorn <joshalcorn@gmail.com> wrote:

> A million by June 30?
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> /ja
> 302-598-1885 (cell)
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> Sent from my iPhone, which is responsible for any typos.
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> On May 19, 2015, at 7:15 AM, Alexander S. Mackler <smacklera@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Count me in for the Alaska office, but only if Colorado is already spoken
> for.
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> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Eric Schwerin <
> eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/19/are-you-ready-for-president-biden.html
>>
>> ARE YOU READY FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN?
>>
>> If these were ordinary times, a happy warrior like Joe Biden would be
>> first out of the starting gate in the race for president. It would be so
>> easy; politicking is what he loves to do.
>>
>> But with Hillary Clinton so dominant in the polls, Biden is hanging back,
>> watching and waiting to see if maybe there’s an opening. He’s telling
>> supporters in the early states that he’ll decide in the next four weeks, or
>> by end of summer.
>>
>> On that thin thread, Draft Biden 2016, a SuperPAC designed to draft him
>> into the race, is lining up endorsements in Iowa, the first contest, and
>> organizing house parties and meet ups across the country, from Maryland to
>> Alaska.
>>
>> “Our goal is to have one party in each state, including Alaska,” says
>> executive director Will Pierce.
>>
>> “I just like to say that. I’ve been doing national campaigns for years,
>> and I never heard anybody say that. Support for the vice president is
>> strong, even in the last frontier!”
>>
>> Pierce did advance work for Obama in ’08 and ’12, but he’s a novice at
>> fundraising, the coin of the realm for ’16. He says Draft Biden has one or
>> two major donors, and is on track to hit half a million by the end of the
>> quarter when contributions are reported to the FEC.
>>
>> This is chump change in presidential politics.
>>
>> What Draft Biden hopes to generate is enthusiasm, and it’s priceless.
>> Pierce, 26, and his communications director, Ahmed Khan, are millennials,
>> and the “I’m Ridin With Biden” bumper stickers you can get for five bucks
>> are pretty cool.
>>
>> The vice president is wearing his trademark aviator sunglasses and
>> driving a Corvette, the image rendered in psychedelic colors like the
>> iconic “Hope” poster in ’08 of Barack Obama.
>>
>> “I have nothing but respect for her (Hillary Clinton), but eight years
>> ago, she was inevitable, and look what happened. It’s like the play offs,
>> you want to make sure your candidate is ready,” says Pierce. Watching the
>> parade of GOP hopefuls at the Faith and Freedom Summit in Iowa earlier this
>> month, a Draft Biden supporter said jokingly that he wanted the podium
>> rental business when the Republicans were in town.
>>
>> “Our goal is to have one party in each state, including Alaska,” says
>> executive director Will Pierce.
>>
>> The commercial interests and the enthusiasm that is generated by a
>> competitive campaign is what a lot of politics is about especially in the
>> early contests. Iowa State Senator Tony Bisignano says he would rather
>> Biden decide to run and not bother with the draft, that Iowa needs him to
>> get people interested and young people excited. Bisignano has supported
>> Biden since his first run for the presidency in 1988, and again in 2008
>> “I’ve taken him everywhere from the state fair to church. Everyone loves
>> Joe.” A recent Quinnipiac poll of Iowa Democratic caucus goers puts
>> Biden’s favorability rating at 79 percent. Even with the secret service,
>> Bisignano notes that Biden is able to “bust loose.”
>>
>> “We’re not having a contest, we’re having a coronation,” Bisignano says,
>> and that’s a hardship for Iowa Democrats. With a Republican governor, two
>> Republican senators, and a Republican House, the only body the Democrats
>> control is the Iowa senate, and that’s by the closest of margins (26 –
>> 24). To build excitement, they need competition. “I don’t think Clinton’s
>> brief appearances here are going to cut it,” says Bisignano.
>>
>> Iowa Democrat Jim Lykam agrees, that’s why he agreed to sign a letter
>> along with several other Iowa lawmakers urging Biden to run.
>>
>> Lykam, a long-time Biden supporter, said when the veep is in town Biden
>> will have the secret service call ahead that he wants to see Lykam, which
>> makes the eight-term Davenport lawmaker feel pretty special. In their last
>> conversation about 2016, Biden said, “Jim, you’re going to be one of the
>> first to know,” a promise the veep no doubt has made to countless others
>> who consider him their friend.
>>
>> Primary fights can get very bitter and personal, yet what’s most striking
>> about the Draft Biden effort is how civil everything seems to be, at least
>> so far. If Biden declines to get into the race, Draft Biden ‘16 will
>> support Clinton, no question. The doubts that emerge around Clinton for
>> these Democrats center on her struggle to relate to voters in the same way
>> her husband is able to do, and that Biden does so easily.
>>
>> “For her, it’s like having to join a fraternity or a sorority, there’s
>> pledge week and hell week,” says Dick Harpootlian, former Democratic Party
>> chairman in South Carolina, who tells of taking six hours to play golf with
>> Biden because the veep felt an obligation to chat up everyone on the
>> course.
>>
>> “He relates to everybody,” says Harpootlian, who is advising Draft Biden
>> ‘16.
>>
>> Once a self-described “vociferous” Clinton supporter -- he went
>> door-to-door in New Hampshire with Bill in ’92 -- he chose Obama in early
>> ’07 despite his historical ties with the Clintons. “It’s more than
>> charisma; it’s more than the ability to emote; it’s the ability to speak to
>> 25,000 people and have every one of them feel you’re speaking to them.
>> Clinton had it, Bush had it, Obama had it, Reagan had it. Joe Biden has it
>> -- he can bring people to tears. She ain’t got it.”
>>
>> After cornering the market on enthusiasm in the last two elections, these
>> Democrats, all men perhaps not coincidentally, worry that the promise of
>> electing the first woman president may not be enough to rally an electorate
>> groomed by cable television and social media to expect the raw emotion of
>> political combat. But it may be enough to deter Biden.
>>
>>
>> Eric D. Schwerin
>> eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
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