After all the talk about the party's lurch leftwards, the practitioner of very traditional coalition politics has established himself as the one to beat.
With his recent presidential announcement, former VP Joe Biden has bounded out of the pack to a commanding lead in the Democratic presidential nomination. One survey has him with over 40% support against a field of 22 other candidates. This has been surprising since the book on Biden was that he was too white, too male and too old to appeal to the Democratic Party circa 2020.
He has moderates to himself: It is true that a majority of Democrats consider themselves liberal/progressive, but a sizable minority call themselves moderates and right now Biden has them to himself. All of the other major candidates have styled themselves as progressives, thus splintering the party’s dominant wing. Biden only needs a share of progressives, not a majority.
He represents normalcy: One hurdle facing all non-incumbents that only Biden has overcome is crossing the barrier of believability—the voting public can actually see him as president. For this purpose, what was thought to be a weakness is actually a strength, namely his extraordinarily long record of service in the federal government. He is certainly not the newest or shiniest political object, but he is serious, dependable and fully capable of serving as chief executive.
Lots of things can still happen. Biden’s loquaciousness can easily trip him up.Progressive impulses among Democrats could overwhelm him. Anita Hill is still angry. The gauntlet of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina remains. The Democrats’ penchant for focusing on someone new and different remains strong. To update advice I once received from a wise hand, “If Biden were going to be president, he would be by now.
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