For Obama supporters only (if you are planning to vote for Obama, you can comment too):

Just a thought. With Joe Biden, he's got harsh talk but can spit a gaffe in a minute. Would you support a Obama/Clinton ticket if Biden withdrew? Do you think Hillary supporters would reverse course and support Obama then?

Discuss.

I think Hillary Clinton supporters already support him.

Besides Hilary I think she wouldn't want to be the Vice President.

Not an Obama supporter because of the global food crisis and his energy plan making it drastically worse though.  So not sure you want my opinion though.

If Biden withdrew, sure. I am not the biggest Hillary fan though. I would rather have Biden.

I think Biden is going to drop himself.

This is what is going to happen.

Biden announces that he is going to have to leave the ticket for "health" reasons. This then makes the health of the canidates a very relevent topic in the news media. Of course McCains old age and previous cancer will not speak well for him on this issue and he will slip further in the polls.

At the same time a leading Obama offers the VP spot to former rival hillary clinton swinging even more support to the Democratic ticket.

At this point the dems have sealed the deal pretty much and if anything happens to Obama, they got their true second choice in office.

Obama CANNOT drop Biden, biden has to drop himself.

No. She acted like a crazy idiot when it was apparent she was going to lose the nomination. If she had bowed out in a respectful manner then I would say yes.

I'll accept it because you aren't a McCain fanboy.

Here's the deal - According to a Gallup poll several months ago, 28% of Hill supporters said they'd go with McCain and that number hasn't changed. He really needs to figure some way to get some of their support.

Source: http://www.gallup.com/poll/105691/McCain-vs-Obama-28-Clinton-Backers-McCain.aspx

@ Stockstar - very interesting point. I actually think this will happen, though he will 'recover' and be fit to stay in the Senate. I know he admitted Hillary was better for the VP job.

@ Akuma - yeah, I supported Hillary early, but felt like she was whining too much.

@ Super - she did act like a crazy chick, but you know, think about it. She was pretty much a shoo-in for the pres job and an unknown comes in and steals her thunder. She easily had the best speech at the convention and if the Biden thing happens, I would really want to see Hill there. I think she'd act a lot more mature if she were on the ticket.

I could of swore those numbers swung back.

Either way.... I don't think it's so much a problem with Hillary Clinton from the "They took the women" away but more just a policy standpoint.

Hilary Clinton won the Union Democrats big from Obama... and Obama really doesn't have much in his polcies for the Union Democrats.

A simple VP change isn't the kind of thing that changes when it comes to Union democrats because they're unusually informed as far as voters go and they all stick together... and have a lot of opinions that clash with the far left. (global warming prevention vs hurting the economy for example.)

He'd do better to rebuild some planks to offer more robust support to Union workers to win over those voters.

That's the voter block that's really being targeted with the "elistest" comments.

Give them some big "workers rights" type thing... and you win them over... toherwise a lot will defect republican.

If he went back to his democratic primaries position on NAFTA he'd get back most of those voters in a flash... instead of calling them "overheated" as soon as he left the union states.

I mean Biden is supposed to be a "for the wokers" type guy like Hillary..

Hillary Clinton wasn't even vetted by the Obama team and she wouldn't really add anything to the ticket that Joe Biden doesn't other than her gender. Its really rare for a presidential candidate to switch their vp in the middle of a campaign, I think the last time it happened was in 1972. If you're winning the election, you generally don't need to pull crazy stunts like that.

Plus, I would expect McCain to make a necessary switch prior to Obama. Just sayin'.

I'd rather have Biden. I don't think his gaffes are as bad as Palin's.

Hillary's not gonna happen. It's a stupid rumor going around the internet.

I don't think the Obama campaign is the one in need of crazy desperate Hail Mary maneuvers.