Color me skeptical.

What has Joe Biden done in the past year? Or even in the past 9 years?

This is what people thought of Biden back in 2008.



Despite a few notable endorsements, Biden failed to garner significant support in opinion polls, and was marred by controversial comments made while campaigning. He ultimately dropped out of the race on January 3, 2008, after capturing less than 1% of the vote in the Iowa caucus.

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In the edition of January 23, 2006 of The News Journal, Delaware's largest daily newspaper, columnist Harry F. Themal reported that Biden "occupies the sensible center of the Democratic Party."

That just screams excitement, does it not? /s

Then he spent eight years as veep, where he managed to do nothing worthy of note, except for earning nicknames like “creepy Veep”.

So explain this poll to me.



According to the latest data from Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll, provided exclusively to The Hill, Biden has 27 percent among Democrats.

The next closest candidate is Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), at 16 percent, followed by 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and media mogul Oprah Winfrey, each at 13 percent.

...“Biden is now emerging as a very early front-runner — he beats handily even the celebrity candidates that have been floated,” said Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll co-director Mark Penn.

“The results show the broad constituency of the party favoring someone who has an appeal to the Working Class voters that Trump captured,” Penn said.

Right. Biden = Working Class.

Wait, what!?!

Pardon me for believing that polls are skewed toward establishment candidates.





While Biden hasn't done anything in the past year, Bernie just did this.



Although Sanders has participated in more than one live health care debate on CNN, he told The Washington Post earlier this month that a large media network failed to respond to his inquiries about a broadcast solely on the topic of government-provided health care coverage.

But Sanders’ town hall, which was co-hosted by the left-leaning online video news outlets The Young Turks, NowThis and ATTN, demonstrated that a lengthy seminar on the complicated topic of single-payer health care can draw a crowd as large as many primetime cable news shows.

The auditorium itself was packed to capacity with some 450 attendees. And together, the live audiences on the senator’s Facebook and YouTube pages, the the three news sites and some other outlets that picked up the stream added up to about 1.1 million people.

Ok. That's just those weirdo socialists, not mainstream America...or not.



When Americans are asked whether government should do more or whether government is already doing too much, they split 58/38 — statistically identical to last April’s 57/39 divide but technically the highest number recorded by this poll since they began tracking the question in 1995. That year, by the way, the split was 32/62 in the aftermath of the House takeover by Newt Gingrich’s Republican majority.

Bernie is out in front of a major national trend.

Yet Biden passed him while doing nothing?



Let's look at this 2015 poll, when the establishment wanted to clear the field for Hillary.



Even Hillary generated more enthusiasm than Biden.

So if the Democratic establishment is really going to push another uninspiring centrist upon us, then Trump should have no problems getting re-elected.



It's one thing to be depressed and disappointed about Donald Trump's victory, but have these people forgotten everything we learned from the 2016 election? Apparently so. Not only did the ultimate outsider win the election, but the second most formidable force throughout the contest was another consummate outside in Senator Bernie Sanders. And now Sanders' achievement seems even more impressive as former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile is insisting the Hillary Clinton campaign rigged the system to make it impossible for him to win.

Because Biden and whoever his supporters may be right now have apparently missed the memo, let's break this situation down.

First, American voters on each side of the traditional partisan aisle are shouting loudly and clearly that they're tired of establishment politicians.

...And now along comes Biden, with his decades in Congress and eight years as vice president portraying himself as a possible great hope? Please

I don't have a breakdown of the Harris poll, but I do have breakdowns of the recent CNN and Quinnipiac University Polls.

If you look at the polls, Bernie and Biden are evenly matched in nearly every category, with only a couple exceptions.

Unsurprisingly, Bernie beats Biden in the youth vote.

Surprisingly, Biden's edge with women is very small (despite two years of smears from Hillary supporters).

However, the most notable difference is in the least talked about category - class.

less than $50K; over $50K

Biden 55/28; 63/28

Sanders 63/23; 53/38

So which one was the working class candidate again?