# Will/could/should the democrats draft Joe Biden?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-could-should-the-democrats-draft-joe-biden/756451>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [June 4, 2016, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-could-should-the-democrats-draft-joe-biden/756451 "2016-06-04T01:20:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-could-should-the-democrats-draft-joe-biden/756451/61 "2016-06-07T00:02:43Z")

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> [@adaher](#):
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> The Torricelli rule.

Both that and the Eagleton rule show that the parties decide who their candidates are. Not you, despite your schoolyard-echoing claims.

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**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-could-should-the-democrats-draft-joe-biden/756451/62 "2016-06-07T00:04:01Z")

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They decide that at the conventions and before ballot deadlines. They do not get to decide who their candidates are in late October. Unless they can rely on partisan judges, of course.

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-could-should-the-democrats-draft-joe-biden/756451/63 "2016-06-07T00:20:38Z")

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Cite for the No Backsies Law? 😉

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**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-could-should-the-democrats-draft-joe-biden/756451/64 "2016-06-07T00:22:27Z")

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Whatever a state ballot deadline is, that’s the deadline for deciding who your candidate is in that state. Some will be set in stone within weeks of the conventions. Others might take a bit longer. Pretty much no state will allow a ballot change in October absent extraordinary circumstances. And no, “We’re losing!” isn’t extraordinary circumstances.

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-could-should-the-democrats-draft-joe-biden/756451/65 "2016-06-07T00:33:10Z")

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So, no. I didn’t think so.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-could-should-the-democrats-draft-joe-biden/756451/66 "2016-06-07T00:38:54Z")

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> [@Merneith](#):
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> How about you let us Democrats decide who we want, using our publicly announced, months-long and well-publicized, selection process and you Republicans worry about cleaning up the enormous Shit-Godzilla that is bearing down on your own convention?

True. The last thing Republicans can claim in 2016 is that they have any expertise in picking candidates. They should be asking the Democrats for advice not offering it.

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**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-could-should-the-democrats-draft-joe-biden/756451/67 "2016-06-07T01:08:55Z")

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40-56 approval says you guys aren’t any better:

[elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster#favorability-ratings](http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster#favorability-ratings)

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**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-could-should-the-democrats-draft-joe-biden/756451/68 "2016-06-07T01:51:34Z")

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Every time you wave a munch of meaningless numbers, I hear Donald shout, “I’m building a wall!!!”

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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-could-should-the-democrats-draft-joe-biden/756451/69 "2016-06-07T01:58:43Z")

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And Obama going to pay for it! (He’s upped his game…)

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