Come join the party, not just anyone will do (Part 17)...

Vice President Joe Biden announced today he's not going to run for President.

It's about time, and for me, it's no surprise.  I mean, really, what shot did he think he had?  Hillary, and to a lesser extent, Bernie, already has most of the endorsements and money already locked up.  And where was his base of support supposed to come from?  Hillary has the majority of the Democrats already, Bernie's got the people to the left of her, and, as the quitting of Jim Webb has showed, there aren't a whole lot of Democrats to the right of Hillary, where Biden presumably would be.

So it's good, in my opinion, he dropped out...or rather, never entered.

And here is the situation.

Democrats
Hillary Clinton: April 12, 2015 - 179 days
Bernie Sanders: April 30, 2015 - 166 days (even though he's really an Independent)
Martin O'Malley: May 30, 2015 - 140 days
Lincoln Chafee: June 3, 2015 - 134 days
Jim Webb: July 2, 2015 - October 20- 105 day campaign
Joe Biden: 0 day campaign


And the clown car bus that IS the Republican candidates
Ted Cruz: March 23, 2015 - 205 days
Rand Paul: April 7, 2015 - 195 days
Marco Rubio: April 13, 2015 - 178 days
Ben Carson: May 4, 2015 - 164 days
Carly Fiorina: May 4, 2015 - 164 days
Mike Huckabee: May 5, 2015 - 163 days
Rick Santorum: May 27, 2015 - 140 days
George Pataki: May 28, 2015 - 139 days
Lindsay Graham: June 1, 2015 - 136 days
Rick Perry: June 4 - Sep 11, 2015 - 95 day campaign
Jeb Bush: June 15, 2015 - 122 days
Donald Trump: June 16, 2015 - 120 days
Bobby Jindal: June 24, 2015 - 113 days
Chris Christie: June 30, 2015 - 95 days
Scott Walker: July 13 - Sep 18, 2015 - 64 day campaign
John Kasich: July 21, 2015 - 86 days
Jim Gilmore: July 29, 2015 - 85 days

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