Alex Foster

Presidential trivia

By | Tue 4th November 2008 - 10:30 pm

A couple of presidential trivia questions whilst we’re all waiting for the Main Event, courtesy of Lord Norton over at the Lords Blog.

When was the last US presidential election which was won by the Republicans in which a Nixon or a Bush was not on the ticket?

and

What is it that Barack Obama and John McCain have in common and which they share with Gerald Ford and his 1976 running-mate Bob Dole? When one of the current candidates enters the White House, he will actually share this feature with most of his recent presidential predecessors – and the chances of most of the recent Presidents having this feature are calculated at 10,000 to one.

Answers to both questions are in the comments of this post at the Lords Blog.

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