Poll: Had Biden run in 2004, do you think he would have beaten Kerry for the Nomination?

[TeamJordan23]

Just a 'what if' question about 2004

Poll: Had Biden run in 2004, do you think he would have beaten Kerry for the Nomination?

[1corona4u]

1. And I think I can say with a degree of certainty..

that Biden would NOT have backed down from the Swift Boating....and we might even get a chance to see that in this race...

[Captain Hilts]

6. Kerry would have beaten him, but YES, Biden is much more the debate tiger...

that's why he's my #1 right now.

Take no prisoners, Joe!

[sandnsea]

2. None of them could beat Kerry n/t

And he wouldn't have made the childish mistakes of the Clinton campaign either.

[Debi]

3. Had he stayed above the fray in Iowa the way he is now he would have jumped over

Dean/Gephardt/Kerry.

I think Iowa would have been Edwards, Biden (then one of the above three).

[existentialist]

4. Who knows

there are too many variables to answer definitively.

[saltpoint]

5. No way to be sure and can't be ruled out, given Biden's brains, but all the

same, the Kerry campaign in Iowa in 04 was a remarkable up-from-the-ashes turnaround.

Just ask Presidents Gephardt and Dean.

[Occam Bandage]

7. Who knows? He might have been an also-ran then. Hell, for all we know, he

might have split Kerry's support, and Edwards might have won the nomination. Maybe with a Biden candidacy, the Dean-Gephardt murder-suicide pact doesn't occur, and Dean wins the nomination. Who knows?