Opinion: Biden might be the restful candidate voters devoutly desire
By George F. Will George F. Will Columnist covering politics and domestic and foreign affairs Email Bio Follow Columnist April 26 at 4:07 PM Three days before Joe Biden dove back into the deep end of the political pool, a rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders , said that the terrorist who bombed the 2013 Boston Marathon, as well as everyone else in America’s prisons, should be allowed to vote, lest the “chipping away” of voting rights leave the country “running down a slippery slope.
One or more of Biden’s rivals have endorsed, or at least deemed conversation-worthy, many ideas not uppermost in most voters’ minds: socialism, the Green New Deal, packing the Supreme Court, abolishing ICE and the electoral college , free college, votes for 16-year-olds, Medicare-for-all , etc.
Biden has already begun the requisite apology grovel, whereby Democratic aspirants try to make amends for various violations of progressive orthodoxy. For example, in the 1970s, Biden was critical of court-ordered busing of children to schools outside their neighborhoods, supposedly to achieve “desegregation,” but actually to engineer a court-desired racial balance.
However, first things first: Who is most likely to reacquire the decisive real estate lost in 2016 by a total of 77,744 votes — Wisconsin , Michigan and Pennsylvania — out of 13,940,912 votes cast in those states, which have 10, 16 and 20 electoral votes, respectively? Biden, who last lived in Pennsylvania more than half a century ago, has almost worn out the “I am Joe from Scranton” pedal on the organ, but his connection — Delaware is contiguous to Pennsylvania — might be enough to win...
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