Joe Biden was elected to the senate in [checks wikipedia] 1973. Ms Reide is accusing him of assault after he had been there for 20 years. We also know he's been what many consider overly touchy his whole life.
I have to wonder if there isn't a string of women waiting in the wings to come out every 3 or so weeks from the nomination to November.
If Ms Reide's accusations are true, I can't believe he went from nothing to unwanted penetration with no intermediate stops, and given the 80's and 90's culture in general, and in Washington in specific, I can readily believe he banged everything he could get to hold still long enough.