Answer This Quiz Correctly -- Win Valuable Political Junkie Points
Mark, in the comments, pulls up the recent gem from John Zogby:
And [Hillary] has the misfortune of running her history-making campaign against both Jack Kennedy (Obama) and Bobby Kennedy (Edwards).I loved that! Zogby nailed it.
Here's the quiz:
Who was the last candidate to run against both Jack AND Bobby?
Ten bazillion political junkie points for the first one who knows the answer.
Comments
Hubert Humphrey
Posted by: Rosemary, The Queen of All Evil | May 19, 2007 08:58 PM
Most excellent!
Your points are in the mail.
Posted by: Ara Rubyan | May 20, 2007 08:42 AM
Woohoo! You have no idea how hard it was to resist the Google impulse to check my answer. I started mentally talking myself out of Humphrey after I left the comment.
Posted by: Rosemary, The Queen of All Evil | May 20, 2007 09:16 AM
Wikipedia doesn't have much at all about the 1960 Dem primaries (such as they were then); most people don't recall Humphrey's run.
And in 1968, Humphrey was a kind of shadow candidate right after Johnson declined to seek another term -- and before Bobby's assassination. Again, in those days, primaries didn't have quite the "force of law" that they do now.
Nice job!
Posted by: Ara Rubyan | May 20, 2007 03:14 PM