Reply #4: YES. and if you need more evidence >

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read the Epilogue to "The Truth (with Jokes)" entitled The Resurrection of Hope.
Set in 2015, he explains to his (future) grandchildren, Barack, Hillary, and Joe Jr., how democrats took the country back, beginning in 2006. I don't have a copy handy in order to quote from it but I remember that he speaks of the eloquent new leader and all that was accomplished in the first 100 days of the new administration in 2009. He also speaks about his own victorious run for the Senate..... I read it earlier in the year and couldn't help but laugh at how accurate his predictions were.