It didn't take long. Joe Biden is going home to Scranton on Monday.
To hear the way the Obama campaign talks about their vice presidential candidate, you'd thing he still lives there, rather than in Delaware. There's no question that one of the reasons Obama picked him was to help in Northeastern Pennsylvania, where Obama got clobbered in the primary by Hillary Rodham Clinton. So he's going home. Don't know what he'll do there; details to come.
In looking at Pennsylvania, the Northeast is one of the swing areas, along with the Philadelphia suburbs and the area around (but not including) Pittsburgh.
Besides the visit, the Obama campaign has filmed a new commercial just for Northeastern Pennsylvania. It uses some old, black and white Biden family photos and is narrated by Biden. He talks about what he learned growing up in Scranton and how Obama shares those values. Here's the link.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/scranton_ad/
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Thomas Fitzgerald joined The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2000, and has covered Harrisburg as well as city, state and national politics for the newspaper. He was a “boy on the bus” in the 2004 presidential campaign and during primary contests in 2000 and 1996.
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