The Keystone State is key in the Obama-Biden battle for the White House, Sen. Joe Biden told Pennsylvania delegates emphasizing his own roots in Scranton.
He promised delegates all the resources and support the campaign has to offer. That, he said, was the good news.
“The bad news is, you’re going to have a whole helluva lotof me, ’cause I’m coming home,” Biden told a cheering audience, who lined up to shake the hand of the man some have dubbed “Pennsylvania’s third senator.”
Biden, a native son, spent his first 10 years living in the state, a fact the Obama campaign has broadcast since announcing his vice-presidential nomination. Pennsylvania is the campaign’s first stop after the Democratic National Convention.
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell introduced Biden as “a son of the coal country who never forgot where he came from.”
Sen. Hillary Clinton, also a Scranton native, went over big with the pragmatic, blue-collar voter Rust Belt state, now pegged as a November
battleground. Obama not as much. They split the primary vote 55 percent to 45 percent respectively.
