Ongoing Hopes of Hillary

Having drinks after work tonight, the group of us got pretty worked up talking about the election. After the predictable chattering about how we should canvass for Obama, how Palin scares us, and how we think Jon Stewart offers some of the best election coverage of the day, the conversation turned to Joe Biden. He's made some really idiotic comments lately, which is just what I was afraid of when he was tapped.

A couple of women sitting a few feet away from us interrupted to tell us that the guy they'd been speaking to earlier (a fiscal conservative/social liberal basically waiting to lose his job on Wall Street) floated an intresting theory: in a couple more weeks Biden will have some kind of specific-lite personal situation that requires him to step down from the ticket. Hillary Clinton will then be selected as Obama's running mate. It would stop some of the Palin, I-want-to-vote-for-a-woman momentum and bring all the disaffected Hillary supporters firmly into Obama's camp.

I really don't expect it to happen, but it's certainly an intersting theory.