Pennsylvania, Iowa And Catholics

By Kleinheider Posted on August 23, 2008 at 3:22 pm

What Biden offers the ticket apart from his foreign policy experience:

Biden and Obama are Christians, though Biden would become the first Catholic vice president and could bring in the white, working class, Catholic voters that have eluded Obama during the primary — and who were so critical to Bill Clinton’s two White House wins.

Born and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania, for the first twelve years of his life, Biden could bag the Keystone state, bringing it into the Blue column this November. It’s a state crucial to a Dem victory in the general, which just so happens to include a large, white, Catholic voting block.

Although hailing from the smallest state in the Union, the only state Biden actually campaigned in for the primary was battleground Iowa, though his 1988 presidential campaign won die-hard followers. His loyalists in Iowa are jumping up and down over the pick and will rally around their Dem ticket, pumping up Obama’s current lead.

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