Random Thought
Posted on June 30, 2008 by andrew
I’m quite pleased to know that we’re witnessing the death of the “Senators can’t win presidential elections” claim (assuming nothing extremely outside the realm of likely outcomes occurs between now and November). The claim was always a stupid one, based as it was on a whopping sample size of 11 presidential elections1. Now, with the election of either Senator Obama or Senator McCain, hackish analysts will have to come up with some new bogus theory with which to annoy me.
- In 1960, then-Senator John F. Kennedy was elected. The next eleven elections were won by, in order, a sitting president (LBJ), a former vice president (Nixon), a sitting president (Nixon), a governor (Carter), a governor (Reagan), a president (Reagan), a vice president (Bush I), a governor (Clinton), a president (Clinton), a governor (Bush II), and a president (Bush II). ↩
» Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Aaron Boone, Hillary Clinton, presidential elections, stupid memes
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