Not Sure "White haired elderly man gives hugs" is Having Its Intended Political Effect.

[McCamy Taylor]

It may just be me, but I think it is making Biden seem friendly, avuncular. You know. Like a regular Joe.



Here is another white haired elderly man who gives hugs:

[hlthe2b]

1. I would surely hope so.

I think (ignoring what all has come out re: Flores since she made her first media blitz), the fact she keeps pushing this and pushing this and making more and more demands for more apologies... has truly diminished her credibility and left her motives suspect. Yeah, there continues to be a lot of unquestioning sycophantic support for her among the punditry class on TV, but from what I can tell among the world, at large, not so much.

[Tipperary]

8. This.

+1

[OhZone]

2. Good point!

** hugs **

[beachbum bob]

3. same attempt to discredit the leading democratic opponent against trump or any republican

we saw 2 years of this with GOP and others attacking Hillary

With Hillary, its the mails, with Joe its the hugssssssssss

[Scurrilous]

4. K&R

[peggysue2]

5. Which means, of course, that Biden's opponents and the media . . .

will move on to something else. I predict the Anita Hill quagmire will be the next run.

That said, I'm also confident that Biden will weather the storm, answer the questions and move forward.

Because that's what he's gotta do.

But as far as preventing a run? No, the past week's brouhaha has not and will not stop the inevitability.

[BlueFlorida]

6. David Sirota and perhaps higher ups

miscalculated. It backfired.

Just on DU, Biden went from 8% to 10%

[Peacetrain]

7. Exactly!!!

[True Blue American]

9. According to the polls

Biden went up 13% against Trump after the allegations.

Here is another.

https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/422735-trump-beats-beto-nearly-ties-bernie-but-loses-to-biden-in

[Iggo]

10. Oh, it is.

They play dem voter outrage like a fiddle.

This one didn't burn as hot as they wanted it to, but they still made us chase the shiny object.

[BlueFlorida]

13. The only ones that chased it and are repeating it

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are the supporters of a certain candidate because they think it is advantageous to their candidate.

[Iggo]

17. That's not even close to true.

[jalan48]

11. It will in the general election. That's the point of it all. Check out some of the compilations that

are already posted on You Tube of Biden hugging and caressing men, women and children. I think it's despicable but I expect we will see lots of ads exploiting his genuine humanity if he is our candidate for POTUS. It's what they did to Kerry (war hero), turn one of his biggest strengths into a weakness.

[BlueFlorida]

12. Meh

some people are easily swayed .... a vast majority, not so much.

[namahage]

15. Why would we do that?

Unless we were trying to look for things to smear Joe with...you know, "for research purposes" only, of course.

[jalan48]

16. Why would we do what?

[oasis]

14. Definitely something to think about. nt