PLEASE!  PLEASE Send Joe Biden to the Battleground States!

He’s our favorite unpredictable Democratic spokesperson.

The White House backroom strategists are preparing to send the Vice President to the states where President Obama has fallen behind in the polls.  That could be an exhausting job considering the current polls.  The plan is to send Biden to the battleground states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, all key to a 2012 win.  Those were all states which Obama carried in 2008. FOX NEWS reports:

“Biden could represent the kind of profile the Obama campaign needs. Whereas Obama has at times struggled to connect with white working-class voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and Florida’s major Jewish constituency, Biden has deep ties to both groups. His pro-Israel credentials come from his many years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. And he frequently stresses his blue-collar upbringing in a Catholic family from Scranton, Pa.

A Democratic official told The Associated Press that Biden has been working the phones with prominent Jewish groups and Catholic organizations in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. Plus he’s already made visits to those states.

Obama Not Popular With Jewish Community Or Working Class White Males

A Democratic strategist with strong ties to the Obama White House told Fox News it’s unlikely Biden will campaign in those three states as a substitute for Obama.

“This isn’t like ’92, when Clinton worked the North, Midwest and West while Gore campaigned in South,” the strategist said. “Bottom line is Obama needs to win in those states, Biden can’t win it for him.”

However, the strategist said Biden “is an asset in those states and more.”

“The value of Biden is highest on the campaign trail. Hearing him talk about his father’s struggles with unemployment when he was a kid is compelling and resonates with average Americans. He’ll be a key part of (the) campaign in key states,” the strategist said.

Pollster Scott Rasmussen said the white working class is arguably the most important demographic in the 2012 election, particularly in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, as well as Michigan.

“I think the key demographic group is the white working class Democrats,” Rasmussen told Fox News on Saturday. “They voted for Hillary Clinton in the primaries in 2008 over Barack Obama. They voted for the president in the 2008 general election, and they voted for Republicans the last time around.”

Obama Running Neck and Neck With Romney In Key States

Rasmussen said recent polling shows “the race will be close.”

Indeed, polls over the past month show neither party necessarily has the edge in Ohio, Pennsylvania or Florida.

A PPP poll showed Obama’s approval rating has suffered severely in Pennsylvania. The poll, released earlier this week, put his approval at 42 percent, with 53 percent disapproving of his job performance. However, the poll still showed him tied with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at 45 percent each. The poll of 500 Pennsylvania voters was taken Nov. 17-20. It had a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.

A Rasmussen poll released last Sunday showed Romney leading Obama slightly in Florida. The poll put Romney at 46 percent among likely voters, with Obama at 42 percent. When matched up against former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who in several recent GOP primary polls has seized the lead away from Romney and businessman Herman Cain, Obama was leading by just 2 points. The poll of 500 likely voters was conducted Nov. 17 and had a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points.

A set of Quinnipiac University polls conducted two weeks ago also reflected a tight race in those three states, at least when Obama was matched up against Romney. The polls showed Obama slightly ahead in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and Romney slightly ahead in Florida.

Biden mentioned at a fundraiser in late September that the campaign was working on its battleground state strategy.

At the time, Biden said the campaign was preparing to compete in 12 battleground states. He described Obama’s campaign operation as “the best presidential ground game that’s ever been put together in the history of presidential politics.”

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Filed under: Featured, Inside The KC, Politics, Uncategorized by Sonja Eddings Brown, Nov 27, 2011