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Biden and Obama also are asking voters for a little grace after a debate night that they admit wasn't great.subpar 2012 debate performance"But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself," Obamain Raleigh, N.C., an enthusiastic Biden — using a Teleprompter before a cheering crowd — also acknowledged that his debate skills have atrophied with age.But I know what I do know," he added.
"Staff is terrified of him," the Democrat said of those surrounding the president. "It's really just Jill" who could tell him to drop out.For now, Biden's campaign is insisting that he has no plan to end his campaign — and his strategy for recovering from the debate debacle is underway. "Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question. You knew all the facts," she told him when they visited a post-debate rally party last night."I don't know what you did last night," he told the crowd in Raleigh, "but I spent 90 minutes on a stage" with a guy who has "the morals of an alley cat."