WI: Obama picks Tim Kaine for VP

What if in the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama had selected Tim Kaine as his VP instead of Joe Biden? What would this mean for Joe Biden's career? would Kaine run in 2016? Would Biden run in 2016?
 
Biden gets SecState. Hillary gets it later on, Kerry stays in the Senate.
This sounds about right.

Tim Kaine fills the same "Generic Moderate White Guy" role as Biden. Kaine being from Virginia instead of Delaware doesn't matter; Obama won Delaware handily (>60%) and Virginia went to Obama anyway. Both the Virginia and Delaware state elections will remain unchanged, too, despite bumps or lack thereof from the respective candidates.

As an aside: Delaware elected a Democratic Senator and a Republican Representative (for their single at-large seat), both by 65%. Wha?
 
This sounds about right.

Tim Kaine fills the same "Generic Moderate White Guy" role as Biden. Kaine being from Virginia instead of Delaware doesn't matter; Obama won Delaware handily (>60%) and Virginia went to Obama anyway. Both the Virginia and Delaware state elections will remain unchanged, too, despite bumps or lack thereof from the respective candidates.

As an aside: Delaware elected a Democratic Senator and a Republican Representative (for their single at-large seat), both by 65%. Wha?
Castle and Biden are both institutions in DE politics. Plus, Castle is pretty damn moderate.
 
As I said with Clinton: If you're gonna pick a Virginian Democratic Senator and former Governor, go for Mark Warner.

Depending on who the GOP runs for the seat in Virginia, likely GOP Senate seat pick up. Kaine BARELY won re-election in 2012, and that was with a crap ton of money and riding Obama's coat tails. Governor McDonnell was at the high point of his popularity at the time, so without a well funded, well connected incumbent Democrat, the GOP wins the seat.

Kaine is probably a much less popular VP than Biden. As the 2016 election showed, he's at best bland, and at worst, a fool. It takes a special breed to make Mike Pence look like a professional.
 
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