President Joseph Robinette Biden (the only president whose middle name is the sur name of a Miami legal Judicial legend - see below for more) will exit the race by this time next week.
Political trivia- name the last sitting president who chose not to run for reelection.
So now that Biden out is a nearly foregone conclusion, what is the path forward? Biden cannot assign his delegates to his Vice President. He must release them, which means we will have an open convention. So our next political trivia is when was the last open convention in the US? Who won?
Who are your picks to be the democratic presidential nominee? We think the strongest choice is Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia. The Governors of Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Jersey, Colorado and California are also in the running. And what about Senator Corey Booker of NJ? We haven’t heard much about him lately.
For a political junkie like Rumpole, this is going to be loads of fun.
And while the presidency is within the grasp of you know who, he is not there yet.
Don’t believe us? Just ask Thomas Dewey or Al Gore. Not to mention Richard Mulhouse Nixon in 1960.
REGJb Trivia answer. We had a county court Judge named Meek Robinette who spoke with a very thick southern drawl. He was not, to be kind, the sharpest knife in the drawer, so he was relegated to bond hearing duty twice a day where he said iconically “Unless ah state otherwhaise ah find probahable chause…” Let’s just say there was a gulf as wide as the Mississippi River between him and Judge Ed Cowart. But what a name! Meek as a first name is just so old school southern cool. And if you read about Judge Robinette you will learn that as a young man he was a U of M star athlete. Share your Meek Robinette stories with us and on X #MeekRobinette.