For Democrats, Joe Biden is the top seed in the race to unseat President Trump in 2020. He's come a long way from his nutty-uncle gaffe-a-thon persona, and with a slew of medals and honors from President Obama, he presents the very picture of the respectable modern statesman.  He showed up at a lot of foreign funerals for heads of state.  He milked the sympathy factor over his son's death from cancer.  He wore a suit.  He projected gravitas.  Yet he also manages to have a hard-hat appeal and a mainstream-Democratic-ideological image, which seems to be the right formula for Democrats winning in most of their races these days. No surprise, he's the Democratic frontrunner in polls among Democrats with a seven-point lead, campaigning even now with fire to burn, because he's convinced he made a mistake in not running back in 2016. Except there's some dirty laundry now that's getting some...(Read Full Post)