[1]US vice-president Joe Biden is on a mission - to stop President Barack Obama’s slide in the polls after a lackluster performance in last week’s first presidential debate with Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
In what promises to be one of the closest presidential elections in recent US history, 69-year-old Biden, an elder statesman and former senator, is expected to vigorously challenge his deeply conservative poll rival Paul Ryan, a 42-year-old Wisconsin congressman, most known as a specialist on the US budget and who is on a drive to make deep cuts in government spending lower the deficit.
Meanwhile, a new poll said that Biden is seen as more unfavorable than Ryan. More voters view Biden unfavorably than favorably, while opinions about Ryan are more evenly divided, the Pew Research said.
Biden, who himself is struggling, will find it harder to resurrect Obama’s fortune as presidential challenger Romney has more voters’ support in three battleground states after his dominant debate performance last week. However, perceptions that the economy is improving remain a buttress for Obama.
The latest Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News poll, of likely voters in the three states, Colorado, Virginia and Wisconsin, found no sharp movement after the debate and the news last Friday that the unemployment rate in September had dropped below 8 per cent for the first time since Obama took office.
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