DOOM & GLEE :

Why Few Senators Become Presidents (David S. Broder, June 23, 2002, washingtonpost.com)

In all of American history, only two men -- Warren Harding and John Kennedy -- have gone straight from the Senate to the White House. Bob Dole in 1996 was the last sitting senator to win a party nomination (though he resigned his Senate seat a few months before the convention) and, like most of his predecessors, he was whomped in the election.

In 2000, two men who had spent most or all of their public careers as senators, Al Gore and Bill Bradley, and a sitting senator, John McCain, were in the race -- and all three lost.

The staggering part of all this for Democrats is who do they have other than their congressmen that's a serious contender? Howard Dean? Posted by Orrin Judd at June 24, 2002 1:53 PM