A Big Deal For Little Delaware
Senator Joseph R. Biden is the first Delawarean to appear on a major-party presidential slate although several residents of the tiny state have run for president under (very) minor party banners.
Delaware’s representation in the upper reaches of national government also is on the thin side: One state senator became Senate president pro-tem and another secretary of state, but that’s about it.
Biden, who is running for a seventh term, is expected to remain on the November ballot. If Barack Obama wins, Biden will resign his Senate seat. Democratic Governor Ruth Ann Minner would then appoint a replacement to serve until the next general election in 2010.
Biden’s son, Beau, who is state attorney general, is widely-considered to be interested in succeeding his father, but his Delaware National Guard unit is being deployed to Iraq and it is unclear whether he could be named while serving overseas.
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[...] The Moderate Voice: This is a big deal for little Delaware [...]
Actually, many people complain that the smaller states have too much power in the _federal_ government, notably in the Senate, whose structure many “progressives” find undemocratic and even tyrannical. (So has one lousy activist Court when it has come to a similar, obviously constitutional, structure in state legislatures.)