Campaign 2012 Tidbits (7 of 16): The early Obama-Biden relationship.

From Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s Double Down – Game Change 2012 (New York: Penguin Press, 2013), p. 71:

For the next two months [after Obama’s VP pick in 2008], Biden and Obama rarely stumped together and barely spoke by phone, with the former shut out of [the] Chicago[  campaign headquarter]’s nightly conference calls with the latter.

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