If John McCain wins the presidential election he would, if anything, accomplish one thing.  He would be the first president born in the 1930s.  For some strange reason the decade has not been able to produce a U.S. president.  We jumped  from the 1920s to the 1940s when George H.W. Bush ( b. 1924) passed the baton to Bill Clinton (b. 1946).  The fact that 3 out of the last 4 presidents have been 2-term presidents has something to do with it.

But for all the folks (including my mom, b.1934) born in the '30s, their president has either been older or younger than them. Does it mean anything? Not really, just having fun with presidential trivia.  In a year where we will be bombarded with news about the presidential election on a daily basis, maybe we can make things more interesting by mentioning these presidential facts.

Since the GOP can't seem to settle on a true front-runner, with all factions holding ground, maybe this small fact about McCain, will get him some votes.  I'm sure it would if the folks born in the '30s knew this fact.  If McCain doesn't  win chances are the decade will never have a representative in the White House.  So I wish John McCain good luck, and if anything, win one for your fellow septuagenarians.