Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Where the Presidential Candidates Earned Their JD's


Democratic presidential candidates with JD's:

Hillary Clinton - Yale
Barack Obama - Harvard
John Edwards - UNC
Joe Biden - Syracuse
Chris Dodd - Louisville
Tom Vilsack - Albany

Without:

Bill Richardson (But has M.A. from Tuft's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy)
Dennis Kucinich
Mike Gravel

Republican candidates with JD's:

Mitt Romney - Harvard
Rudy Giuliani - NYU
Fred Thompson - Vanderbilt
Sam Brownback - Kansas
Duncan Hunter - Thomas Jefferson
Tommy Thompson - Wisconsin

Without JD's:

John McCain
Mike Huckabee - but for what it's worth he has an honorary LL.D from Ouachita Baptist University.
Ron Paul
Tom Tancredo
Alan Keyes

My highly unscientific conclusion: there is a correlation between "presidential candidate without a JD" and "slightly nutty".

3 comments:

aphrael said...

Where did Tom Vilsack come from?

Dave said...

He filed with the FEC in Nov. 2006, dropped out in Feb 2007 citing fundraising concerns.

Dave said...

As a footnote, I should add that in Feb 2007, right before Vilsack announced he was withdrawing and threw his support behind Hillary, I predicted Vilsack would be Obama's running mate. So much for that prediction. But the rest of the prediction still stands a high likelihood of coming true. Check it out for yourself.