Biden is Old
Being old isn’t a disqualifier as many in the Democrat party would like it to seem. Even more so now that Senator Obama has chosen Senator Biden as a running mate.
Senator Biden is 65 and a long time member of Congress.
Senator Obama hopes that the addition of Senator Biden brings a bit of age and experience to his side of the process. Something that Senator Obama lacks and Senator McCain has in abundance over Obama.
Of course this seems to have turned off some of the younger voters. Ed Morrisey over at HotAir discusses this to some extent. Showing that younger voters are less enthused than before.
Among likely voters, Biden splits almost evenly on whether his selection makes voters more likely or less likely to support Obama, with 32% each and 30% saying no impact. Women are slightly less likely than more likely to vote for Obama with Biden as running mate (31%-29%).
In a huge blow to Obama, the age demographics play exactly against him. Biden produces an eight-point disadvantage on this same question among 18-29s, 39%-31%, and a 14-point gap for thirtysomethings, 37%-23%. The same age groups have large pluralities that don’t believe Biden is ready to be president, 47-32 and 46-28 respectively.
Senator Biden isn’t much younger than Senator McCain. One could actually replace the part of McCain of Paris Hilton’s video with Senator Biden and it would work just the same.
As far as if he helps Obama? I dont’ think so. Senator Biden doesn’t bring anything with him other than age, experience and a willingness to go after McCain and leave Obama free to be vacuous.
Bottom line here is that Senator Biden is old, just like McCain.