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Obama Picks Biden: A Conventional But Effective Choice?

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan found this 8/23/2008 on blogs.cqpolitics.com

A piece on Biden I posted at Mother Jones .... . In the end, Barack Obama used unconventional means to announce a conventional choice for his running-mate. Via a three A.M. text message sent to the cell phones of his supporters, donors and volunteers, Obama's campaign declared that he had chosen Senator Joe Biden, the Delaware Democrat, to be "our" veep nominee. (Three in the ...