Time to admit it...Biden won't run for President.

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The election is 13 months away. He has over three months before the voting starts and the media is giving him free publicity. The fact that Biden has waited thing long says maybe he's the only sane man in the room. Think about it. Why endure months and months of being asked the same questions over and over again, having to constantly be in coffee shops and eat junk food while barely getting any sleep and staying in motels. If he runs, he will spend at least half a year doing all of that and if he's nominated, a full year. It's not like he's Martin O'Malley or Jim Webb where no one has heard of him, he's our Vice President and a long time U.S. Senator from Delaware who twice sought his party's presidential nomination.

I also think those who are declaring candidates defeated months before the voting begins to be forgetting that it's October. At this point in 2007, Rudy Giuliani was the front-runner, then the Bernie Kerik story broke and Mike Huckabee began rallying the religious right, and that all changed by December 1, 2007. Also, no one heard of Bill Clinton in October 1991, Paul Tsongas was probably the front-runner at that point. It's October people, not January. He has a few weeks to decide, though some of the filing deadlines are approaching so really he has another 10-15 days realistically.

[dudeabides]

There's more to it dudeabides.

You cannot run for president as a serious candidate without equally serious fundraising and organisation. The longer he waits, the greater the risk that loses all of those people and is reliant on another established candidate collapsing.

There is no question he has to decide by Oct  25 or so but he will be able to raise plenty of money and he will get a ground game going.