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Democrats facing a tough midterm election need someone to fire up the base. Joe Biden, on Twitter and on the trail, can be good at that. But there's a bigger social media powerhouse out there.

Joe Biden is back on Twitter just in time to fire up Democrats for 2014. On Monday morning he suddenly reactivated his @JoeBiden account on the mini-blog social media site, which had gone radio silent following a happy holidays tweet in 2012.

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Peter Grier is The Christian Science Monitor's Washington editor. In this capacity, he helps direct coverage for the paper on most news events in the nation's capital.

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Dusting off the Twitter handle for a big midterm election year. Lets get to it folks! the US vice president tweeted.

The post was signed Joe, so Biden himself allegedly wrote it. Unsigned posts are the work of the Democratic Party, since its a campaign-related account.

In a way, Biden never really left Twitter. His official vice presidential handle, @VP, has stayed up throughout the Obama administration. But the official feed has to remain pretty strait-laced, while the campaign site gets to loosen up. So in that sense its the real Joe thats being resurrected.

As the Washington Posts own un-tight political analyst Chris Cillizza wrote today, This is going to be good. Then he ran through all his favorite Joe Biden Twitter memes (twemes?) from years past, such as photos of Biden in aviator sunglasses, and Joe Biden carrying pumpkins.

The rest is here:

Joe Biden returns to Twitter. Democrats' 2014 secret weapon? (+video)