Hey KGB, good to see you, though sorry I have to then trash your opinion. Hillary *leap-frog* Joe? well, Joe could have actually put his hat in the ring instead of playing Hamlet Mario Cuomo-style (okay, he'd run a few times and never impressed anyone). Aside from Maureen Dowd pimping a Joe-with-son bedside confessional and then trying to decide like Michael Bloomberg whether the fans really really really wanted him to join the fight. LIke for all this talk about Hillary feeling anointed & presumptuous, I always got that impression more from *others* - like she was taking the nomination away from the rightful party heir of Obama or Sanders or Biden or flirtatiously Bloomberg or others who were going to save us from the supposed (and very poorly defined) "dynasty". How many times did I read over the last 3 years how HIllary should just quit, go away, wasn't needed - even after she largely went away.

Now, after all that blabbing, here are 2 graphs showing why us "centrist faithful" (will you people ever tire of this fucking nonsense pejorative framing - did you intentionally leave out "neoliberal"? - is Biden something other than centrist and pro-insurance companies and weak on feminism and 'pro-war' and all sorts of other selective blindness?) went with the centrist favorite. Because as of June 2015, popular Joe had a 45% negative rating and 40% favorable, and that's while not taking chances and just being the faithful White House puppy dog - his popularity only improved because his son died and he played that up to maximum tearjerking intensity. Back in reality, the lukewarm Obama Administration was one of the biggest anchors around Hillary's neck, but somehow this centrist establishment guy who helped accommodate all this Republican legislative obstruction and built his career on not sticking his neck out and being nice to everyone and enabled Obama's go-it-slowism is going to push through liberal causes and champion the Democratic Party better than Hillary? And yeah, I liked it that she pissed the right off, and knew much of this "unfavorability" was because she was a lightning rod for right wing craziness like 9 Benghazi hearings. Is that getting any better without her? Oh, they're launching another Hillary email probe. Would that benefit Joe somehow? Hardly, they'd drag him in with it via 6 degrees of crazy, and give him a special PizzaGate topping to boot.

Oh, 1 more thing - did I mention that Joe's shit at fundraising? Per this article, while Hillary had raised $45 million in her first quarter, Joe's exploration committee task was to raise $3 million by end of summer. He instead raised less than $1 million. Perhaps in 100 years we'll finally accept that we did run the best candidate we could and through a wide variety of criminal and unfair social factors and some unforced errors, she barely lost.