Isn't it odd the R and D nominees represent the first state and the last 3 states to join the USA?

Question

Just a funny thing, isn't it!

Answer 1

I think it's a bigger oddity that we have 3 records in this election:

- the oldest candidate to start a run for President

- the first black man to be nominated for President

- the most unqualified VP candidate ever

Answer 2

It is pretty odd. Given the way the electoral college assigns votes, and that the candidates usually win their home states,,, the logical thing to do would be to cram a New Yorker, a California, or Texan in there someplace to try to get an edge.

They didn't even try to get the traditional Southern States voting block,, unless they think the Black vote will carry the whole south.

d**n. Going to be another painfully close election.  

Answer 3

Coincidence. Irrelevant.  

Answer 4

Which of those is Illinois?  Or are you going with Obama's birth state of Hawaii?  If you go that way, then Biden is from Pennsylvania and McCain is from the Panama Canal Zone.  The U.S. doesn't even have that as a territory anymore.

Answer 5

Am I missing something?  Obama represents Illinois...definitely not the first state, and certainly not one of the last three.