All Blog Posts from From The Road

From CBS News' Ryan Corsaro:

(WILMINGTON, DEL.) - This morning, Joe Biden woke up at his home in Wilmington, knowing that after thirty five years, it could be the last time that he’ll only hold the title of senator.

By Tuesday night, he might just be the Vice President-elect.

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From CBS News' Ryan Corsaro:

(LEE’S SUMMIT, MO.) - “Thirty seven more hours!” shouted Joe Biden to a crowd of a thousand Missourians in Lee’s Summit this morning.

“I understand that this town’s name comes from the fact that it’s the highest point between Kansas City and St. Louis. And from this vantage point, you get a pretty good view. And there’s one thing I can see clearly, see very clearly – it is change is on the way!”

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From CBS News' Ryan Corsaro:

(TALLAHASSEE, FLA.) - Joe Biden delayed his campaign plane’s takeoff time this afternoon to spend some time with a group of Cub Scouts showed up at the airport to see him off.

Like a grandfather on Thanksgiving, Biden rounded up the children for some photographs outside a private airport in Tallahassee where his plane and the press were waiting to fly to Gainesville.

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From CBS News' Ryan Corsaro:

(TALLAHASSEE, FLA.) - Joe Biden held a rally this afternoon in Tallahassee, Fla., where he acknowledged protesters who blared a siren from a megaphone and chanted “Obama, not ready” as he gave his speech.

“The fact of the matter is, maybe those McCain folks can hear this, they’d be interested back there. They can hear this -- I’ll say it loudly as I can. I thought it was a siren, it’s just a whine.”

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From CBS News' Ryan Corsaro:

(MARION, OH) - Joe Biden told supporters in Ohio that putting John McCain in the White House would guarantee four more years of “clinging” to George W. Bush’s economic policies.

“I watched on the bus coming over on the television I have on the bus. Just today, Vice President Cheney came out and endorsed John McCain,” said Biden. “Folks, if you need any more proof!”

He walked on stage in the Marion Harding High School gym and held up a white t-shirt he had been handed by the state’s lieutenant governor.

“It says, ‘Obama, O'Biden, Ohio, ‘08’!” announced Biden to cheers from the crowd of around 400 people. “Well, I'm Joe O'Biden!”

Biden has been called by that name before, when people, including Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., have jumbled his name and Barack Obama’s when introducing him at rallies.

“They say ‘And the next vice president…uh…Joe O'Biden! I mean, Bara…Joe Biden!’”

Ohio has, by far, been the state Biden has campaigned in the most, spending over a dozen days and holding twenty events since September.

He holds an outdoor rally in Bowling Green this evening before flying to Tallahassee, Fla., for Sunday events.

From CBS News' Ryan Corsaro:

(LIMA, OHIO) - With four days until Election Day, Joe Biden talked to reporters today about the final days of campaigning for Barack Obama in hotly contested states, the war in Iraq, his relationship with the press, and his hopes for a post-election relationship with John McCain.

After ordering a burger and fries with his wife Jill and granddaughter Naomi at Kewpee Restaurant on Halloween night in Lima, he took 12 minutes of questions from an army of roving reporters while a female employee in a vampire costume looked on.

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From CBS News' Ryan Corsaro:

(KETTERING, OHIO) - Ladies and gentlemen, here are four things Joe Biden said today that won’t be in his stump speech tomorrow:

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From CBS News' Ryan Corsaro:

(ALLENTOWN, PA.) - Joe Biden made a stop at a college gymnasium Thursday night, where aside from his normal mocking of John McCain's "maverick" self-association and his "common philosophy" shared with George W. Bush, he laid an unusually harsh attack on McCain's judgement.

"In a dangerous world, you see Barack Obama exercise sound judgment about Iraq, about Afghanistan and about Korea while John McCain has demonstrated poor judgment," said Biden.

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From CBS News' Ryan Corsaro:

(ARNOLD, MO.) - Traveling in the St. Louis metropolitan area today, Joe Biden spoke about concerns over jobs and the economy to a crowd filled with United Auto Workers, many of whom just this week lost their jobs when a Chrysler plant in nearby Fenton closed its doors.

Biden then spoke intimately about his own experience as he watched General Motors down an auto plant in Delaware years ago.

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From CBS News' Ryan Corsaro:

(ST. LOUIS) - As Joe Biden’s plane took off from his joint appearance with Barack Obama in Sunrise, Florida this evening, the Philadelphia Phillies were in the bottom of the eighth inning in their World Series match against the Tampa Bay Rays.

Less than twenty minutes into the flight, the voice of one of Biden’s staff members came over the intercom, announcing the Phillies had won, 4-3.

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