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".
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Where did Tom Vilsack come from?
He filed with the FEC in Nov. 2006, dropped out in Feb 2007 citing fundraising concerns.
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.
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