re: #465 tradewind

Obama was an exception that proves the no-senators-need apply rule. They don’t usually make it through the primary shakeout.

You’re a real student of American History, you know that? Obama is hardly the first Senator to win the Presidency:

Nixon
LBJ
JFK
Truman
Harding
Harrison
Johnson
Buchanan
Pierce
Tyler
Harrison
Van Buren
Jackson
John Quincy Adams
Monroe

ALL served as Senators before becoming POTUS.