How do you feel about Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama’s choice of Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) as vice president candidate?

“I think it’s a wise choice. He’s a very experienced senator. I think he’ll help Obama overcome any of his shortcomings.”

-Eric Schmack, senior undeclared major

“I think Joseph Biden has a big mouth, especially because of his comments on Dunkin’ Donuts on YouTube. I think it’s another way for the Democratic Party to lose the election.”

-Rob Hanauer, first-year law student

“I’m a bit disappointed because he’s anti-video gaming and pro-censorship. Anti-gaming politicians tend to be uninformed.”

-Michael Kefauver, sophomore business major

“I considered it kind of strange. I didn’t expect him to choose someone so old because he’s such a young guy. I believe he does have experience but you can’t always believe what you think.”

-Christine Theobold, freshman education major

Did Sen. Joseph Biden effectively communicate his speech at the National Democratic Convention, and how will it impact the campaign?

“I think that that’s going to be debated quite vigorously during the next couple of days. I think that the speech was designed to give voters a much better idea of who Biden himself is, because he has not had this national stage. This was good for him to establish himself. He comes across with this ‘Average Joe’ working man with this realness and authenticity. So when he talks about health care for working class Americans, he is not a grand speech maker. He is more of a guy to me, that you could imagine organizing the factory workers at a union meeting. Since the Democratic Party is really, in this election, trying to target a large segment of those potential voters, when they listen to him I think they perceive Joe Biden a working class guy who speaks from the gut … I think all of the cards are out on the table now. We finally get a chance to take a strong look at what we get to decide on in November … From this point on, what you saw tonight, will be a road map of what we’ll see from now until November. It will continue to be this message of unity and a calculated attack on McCain.”

-Allen May, general manager of Broadcast News (NTC)

“It was a very effective speech. He clearly established his attack role in the campaign. I think at least for the immediate audience it was effective. It was an interesting speech and I was surprised with the emotion he used, especially when he began talking about his life and family.”

– Ferald Bryan, associate professor of communications