Comments on: Biden And Richardson Cut Obama 2nd Choice Deal? http://donklephant.com/2008/01/03/biden-and-richardson-cut-obama-2nd-choice-deal/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:56:10 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: NYkrinDC http://donklephant.com/2008/01/03/biden-and-richardson-cut-obama-2nd-choice-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-387710 NYkrinDC Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:51:57 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2008/01/03/biden-and-richardson-cut-obama-2nd-choice-deal/#comment-387710 This from the American Prospect: <a href="http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=01&year=2008&base_name=biden_richardson_on_late_dealm" rel="nofollow">Biden’s answers</a> to same three questions: * “There are deals being cut, but not by me, I promise you that. I’ve been asked by more than one campaign…more than one of the top three, yes. There was no way with these things when it was raised with me by my staff because they got calls, I said “Look, go back and tell them I can’t guarantee them anything.” * On his chances he said that his internal polling shows him the second choice of 40 percent of Obama’s and Clinton’s people, and 35 percent of Edwards’ people. Like Richardson, Biden thinks he will finish fourth and advance to New Hampshire. “If I come in fourth, you’re gonna have to write Biden exceeded expectations, he gets a ticket to New Hampshire. That’s what you’re gonna write. And you’re gonna start covering me--you bastards haven’t covered me, but you’re gonna start covering me.” * And he says that “he wouldn’t trade places with any one of [the Big Three] in terms of the expectations game, especially for the one that finishes third. This from the American Prospect:

Biden’s answers to same three questions:

* “There are deals being cut, but not by me, I promise you that. I’ve been asked by more than one campaign…more than one of the top three, yes. There was no way with these things when it was raised with me by my staff because they got calls, I said “Look, go back and tell them I can’t guarantee them anything.”

* On his chances he said that his internal polling shows him the second choice of 40 percent of Obama’s and Clinton’s people, and 35 percent of Edwards’ people. Like Richardson, Biden thinks he will finish fourth and advance to New Hampshire. “If I come in fourth, you’re gonna have to write Biden exceeded expectations, he gets a ticket to New Hampshire. That’s what you’re gonna write. And you’re gonna start covering me–you bastards haven’t covered me, but you’re gonna start covering me.”

* And he says that “he wouldn’t trade places with any one of [the Big Three] in terms of the expectations game, especially for the one that finishes third.

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