We’re in the closing days of the election.

I make my living writing and talking about this stuff, and I’m as eager as you are to be done with the endless ads and fusillades of obnoxious rhetoric.

But we have a few days left, and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp has chosen former Vice President Joe Biden to help make her closing argument.

It seems an odd choice, and not just because of Biden’s somewhat notorious history as a serial groper.

If you don’t believe me, search “creepy Joe Biden” on YouTube and tell me you aren’t skeeved by the former Vice President’s handsy, inappropriately intimate behavior with women.

Heitkamp is just a couple of weeks removed from a shameful episode (one she still hasn’t fully explained) involving her campaign outing sexual assault survivors in a print ad, and now she’s bringing Biden to the campaign trail in North Dakota?

Was there really nobody else?

Some political observers argue Biden’s investment of time here is an indication Democrats are still taking the North Dakota race seriously despite three recent polls showing Heitkamp trailing opponent Kevin Cramer by double digits.

With the odds of Democrats taking the Senate this cycle fading — as I write this FiveThirtyEight.com gives our liberal friends a 1-in-6 chance — where else was he going to go?

But I’m not sure he’ll help.

The creep factor aside, remember Biden has actually been on the ballot in our state before. In 2008 and 2012 he was former President Barack Obama’s running mate.

In that last election his ticket couldn’t even muster 40 percent of the vote here.

Probably because the Obama administration was a disaster for North Dakota.

More specifically, the Obama administration has been a disaster for Democrats in North Dakota.

In 2008, when Obama and Biden were first elected, North Dakota Democrats had 21 seats in the state Senate, 36 in the state House, control of the agriculture commissioner’s office, and all three seats in the federal delegation.

Today Democrats have 9 seats in the Senate, 13 in the House, and control zero statewide executive branch offices. They have only Heitkamp’s seat in the federal delegation.

This trend under the Obama administration was hardly unique to North Dakota. It was a national phenomena, and one that played out mostly in rural, agrarian states like ours.

“During Obama’s eight years in office, the Democrats have lost more House, Senate, state legislative and governor’s seats than under any other president,” Mara Liasson wrote for NPR in 2016.

From the Obama administration’s hostility toward coal, oil, and natural gas to their support for truly awful regulations like the Waters of the U.S. rule, there was little for voters in places like North Dakota to like.

Now Heitkamp, hoping to climb out of a hole her campaign dug for itself in the few days remaining before the election, is bringing a central figure in that administration here to campaign?

It seems like a mistake to this observer.

Rob Port, founder of SayAnythingBlog.com, a North Dakota political blog, is a Forum Communications commentator.