Mo Joe

How the bear-hugging, pain-feeling, close-talking, heart-on-his-sleeve Vice President became the Obama campaign's not-so-secret weapon

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Vice President Joe Biden

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Trebek and the crew, of course, eat it up. They pose for pictures as Biden explains the Electoral College. "If we win Ohio or Florida, there is no way I think they can pull it together," he says of the Republicans, another thing he is not supposed to say. And then he has to go, for fundraisers out west. "Anybody want a ride on Air Force Two to California?" Biden offers the crew. They don't seem to know what to say.

On the way out of the building, Trebek, who knows likability, can't stop talking about the guy who never stops talking. "He wants to be your friend. He wants you to like him," the game-show host says of his Vice President. "And there is nothing wrong with that."

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