Beau Biden Not Running For Senate In Delaware

Speaking as someone who spent a few years in Delaware recently, I don't see this as a setback at all. Beau Biden is seen in the state as riding on his father's coattails. He was allowed to become Attorney General, but had he made a bid for his father's senate seat, I think it would have been seen as too much. As I recall, the polls support this: Beau Biden polled very weakly against Republican candidates despite his name.

Hopefully the Democrats will find a good candidate to run, but as it is now, I see this as more akin to pulling a Dodd rather than an actual setback.

Excellent. Enough nepotism, lets have a real race where the best person wins.

Too bad this wasn't more evident a year ago when someone more than a placeholder could have been appointed.

If there's a silver lining (doubtful, but who knows) it's that if the Dems find a good candidate, he or she can run a populist, anti-incumbent/change campaign against Castle since he's been in Congress (and before that the State House) for so many years and can be held accountable for how badly things suck.

Upon further thought, perhaps Beau Biden's decision was driven by the Supreme Court's ruling turning our democracy into a corporatocracy (is this a word?). Considering how many corporations make Delaware their headquarters, not to mention DuPont's domination of the state, any Democrat probably has to figure having to go up against tens of millions of dollars in attack ads. Corporations could easily set a record in dollars-per-vote spent.

That pedophile case in Delaware could have over 100 victims in it. As AG you can't run from that for your own personal ambitions. I always got the feeling that his father wanted him to run for the Senate (now) more than he did. I could even see him run for Governor after his AG gig rather than running for the Senate.

I don't think he would have won election either, because he would have been smeared for leaving the pedophile case, would have been the same feeling as in Massachusetts with "Kennedy's seat". and I don't know if he could have been his own man with his father as VP. And if he ever voted against an Administration policy it would be made in to bigger news than it probably deserved to be.

I'm amazed...I've read all the comments here and there is not ONE nasty, name-calling attack from our GOP friends...is there a special Tea Bag Convention today? Or maybe they're busy starting their campaign to destroy Castle as just another "RINO." Note that this election will be for only the remaining four years of VP Biden's term...I would imagine Beau will be more interested in running in 2014.