This pool report from Vice President Joe Biden's stop in Seattle, courtesy of Joel Connelly of the Seattle P-I, just in via smart phone:

    Vice President Joe Biden riffed from domestic violence to the minimum wage, from CEO salaries to infrastructure needs, as he raised money in Seattle for Democratic women running for the Senate. 

 The Vice President spoke to more than 800 people at a Women of Valor lunch put on by Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.
   Washington does not have a Senate seat or Governor's office up this year, so had been a fundraising destination for Biden and President Obama.
   "The middle class is not a number, it is a value set," Biden declared, talking about earning power.  With rising income disparity, he added, "It's fading and we damned well need to reestablish it."
The Vice President, an original author of the Violence Against Women Act, spoke at length about domestic violence.
      "Men have a responsibility to stand up, men have a responsibility to intervene, men have a responsibility to take responsibility," he argued.
 What will define success in curbing domestic violence?
   "Success is when not a single woman asks herself, 'What did I do?'" said Biden. "It is never, never the woman's fault. Never. "
  Biden, the partisan, said he hopes the election will "get out of the way some of the dead wood that keeps us from acting."
   Events at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center have established a kind of popularity pecking order among top Democrats.
    Bill Clinton drew 1,500 to a 2012 luncheon, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren , drew 1,200 earlier this year. 

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