Biden cautions Democrats: Don't be too confident

[FlyingSquirrel]

Source: Associated Press

ATHERTON, Calif. – Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says he's optimistic that Barack Obama will be elected president, but he cautioned supporters on Saturday not to be too confident.

The Delaware senator noted that Democrats Al Gore and John Kerry were also well ahead in polls just weeks before Election Day in 2000 and 2004, but both lost their presidential contests to President Bush.

"We've been here before. We've been poised to win the presidential election," Biden said. "The last two times we underestimated how successful virulent attacks are."

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The vice presidential candidate warned supporters that the campaign will get "ugly" over the next 17 days, noting that Republican John McCain's campaign has started making automated telephone calls "sending in the most scurrilous stuff you've heard."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081019/ap_on_el_pr/biden

[d_b]

1. gee I wonder why Gore and Kerry lost

but yea, GOTV.

[tblue]

2. Is he in Atherton?

That's not that far from me.

Don't worry, Joe. We're not taking anything for granted.

[Kalifornia.Kid]

5. JB then visited Piedmont and then onto SF (no public events)

Biden said he was disappointed that McCain had resorted to the same negative campaign tactics that were used against him by George W. Bush during the 2000 election. "(McCain) literally hired the same people that organized those scurrilous attacks against him," Biden said.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/1...

[shanti]

3. joe

it's not about the "ugliness" of the campaigns, it's about counting the votes!

[Nambe]

4. Between the lines, I heard him say ¨stop the fraud¨.