The prospect of a Joe Biden nomination in 2016 may be more than a Republican daydream, according to Politico.
For the past couple of years, Vice President Joe Biden has quietly assembled an A-team of advisers who would, without doubt, be considered the nucleus of a presidential campaign — if only he wouldn’t be 73 in 2016. …
Biden has gone on a recent staffing spree — culminating with the hire of Clinton-era operative Steve Ricchetti — that has many Democrats, and even some on Obama’s own team, wondering if the preternaturally spry and congenitally upbeat vice president just might confound conventional wisdom. …
People close to Biden say he’s aware of his ticking political clock. He’s dealing with the political equivalent of phantom limb syndrome, they say — he can still feel the ambition of being president, even if everyone else thinks it’s gone.