I remember twelve years back when Biden showed up at my local July 4th parade here in NH. It was the year Kerry took the democrat nomination. Biden was there all by himself. No followers, supporters, etc. All the other candidates had bus loads of supporters. Even people running for lower offices had more supporters than Joe. It was like he was running for dog catcher.
I felt kind of sorry for him. At that point, I actually kind of liked the guy because for years I had listened to him call in on the Imus radio show. Imus would taunt him and get him to say stuff that normal politicians would never say. I actually liked because of some of his off the cuff remarks.