Nate Silver (Fivethirtyeight.com) now projects the race to be a dead heat

[Bay Ridge, Bklyn! Born and Bred]

Barry will get a small bounce from the convention, and if he picks Joe Biden things will start going downhill around mid-September, once the GOP smear machine paints the ticket as the 1st and 3rd most liberal members of the Senate (according to the National Journal ratings)....and both of whom, I might add, are to the left of the socialist dude from Vermont. 

You don't think the GOP will bring up that neat little tidbit of info?   LOL

[Bay Ridge, Bklyn! Born and Bred]

Of course that list is trash, but that's not the point.   Coming from a somewhat nonpartisan publication, however, its just more ammo the GOP will use to paint a negative composite portrait of Obama and his running mate that will be extremely difficult for him to shake.    And with Biden's 35-year voting record, I'm sure they will be able to find some pretty juicy evidence on how he hates America and wants all babies to die.

Which is why I've never been a fan of legislators as presidential candidates.