What strikes me more than anything else about this Election is that not only is the next president going to come straight from the Senate (hasn't been done since JFK) but that for the first time since 1972 there will be no Southerners or Texans(not even nominal ones) on either ticket. In fact, except for McCain, there's no one south of Interstate-80 on it.
[There's always debate about the Bushies: The Senior Bush is often identified more with New England than Texas since he didn't move there until he was 24, already with wife and children, and the Younger, who was born in Connecticut and attended prep school in Andover and Yale for college. Still, for the most part, they are accepted as being from Texas]
With four of the last five presidents being from the South/Texas and that same number having been governors this is certainly a change in the quo. After years of being told that only governors from the South have a real shot at the presidency, it's interesting to see this happen. What happens to the "Bubba Vote" especially with a woman on the ticket? Has GWB taken the image of a modern, intelligent South down the same hole he took the Republican party? Will the Senate lose it's image as a tar pit from which no serious Oval Office contender can emerge? Your thoughts.