There’s a fourth candidate in the US election whom no-one seems to talk about anymore but who has been grafting away very effectively. If I’m being really honest, I think I actually warm to him more than Obama. It’s his VP nominee, Joe Biden. Ezra Klein puts it well:

When I argued for Biden’s worth as a VP pick, the center of the case was his ability to be a contemptuous, arrogant jerk when talking about the Republican foreign policy record.

That’s sort of what I was talking about.