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Opinion - David Shribman

HERE'S BIDEN'S CHANCE TO PROVE HE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY

Tue Aug 26, 6:18 PM ET

Joe Biden has been around so long -- he was elected to the Senate in 1972, when Barack Obama was 11 -- that just about anyone involved in politics has a Biden story. Here's mine.

  • EACH GENERATION'S NEW TECHNOLOGY CHANGES POLITICAL LANDSCAPE Sat Aug 23, 7:58 PM ET

    In 1984, a Democratic senator from Colorado named Gary Hart sought the White House by using the phrase "new generation" a dozen times in his standard stump speech. His target was the baby boom generation, a group of about 76 million born between the years 1946 and 1964. Mr. Hart didn't win a presidential nomination, but the themes he explored formed the leitmotif of a quarter-century of presidential campaigns.

  • BIPARTISAN CABINET GAINS INCREASING SUPPORT Sat Aug 16, 7:58 PM ET

    Recent political polls have shown that the slice of Americans who consider themselves independents is about the same size or bigger than those who consider themselves Republicans or Democrats. If that's the case, then why should the candidate who wins the November election surround himself exclusively with members of his own party?

  • NEW HAMPSHIRE'S POLITICS MATTER, EVEN AFTER THE PRIMARY Sat Aug 9, 7:58 PM ET

    FRANCONIA NOTCH, N.H. -- This year's New Hampshire primary was a dud. The presidential candidates roared out of Iowa, spent a mere five days in New Hampshire, then careered down to South Carolina. The vaunted first-in-the-nation primary was reduced to a drive-by.