Why do most of the candidates have 2 first names?

[Renew Deal]

This is creepy. The top 4 all have 2 first names? What does it mean?

Wesley Clark
John Edwards
Howard Dean
John Kerry

If we don't win in 2004, will Kent Conrad be the frontrunner in '08?

[jpgray]

1. FREAKY (nt)

[Buffler]

2. I went to high school

with a William Williams and a Robert Roberts. Hows that for names.

[Rainbowreflect]

10. I know someone named Robert Robertson, Jr.

Isn't that redundant?

[RobertSeattle]

3. And the GOP is full of "body part" Sounding names

Colin Powell
Dick Cheney
George Bush

Maybe we are just stuck in some cosmic sitcom and we don't know it.

[waterman]

4. Now that was funny!

[adadem]

5. Don't forget

John Asscroft

[democratreformed]

6. LOL!

:7

[funky_bug]

19. You forgot one

John Asskroft.

[Jersey Devil]

7. Also, all of them have 3 total syllables in their names

nee-nee-nee-nee
nee-nee-nee-nee

[JVS]

8. Never knew a person with the first name Edwards, nor with that...

spelling of Kerry.

[spooky3]

15. my cousin's name is Kerry, so it's still eerie :-).

[Sly Kal]

9. better vote for Al Sharpton

I think I might if this board gets any uglier. The only candidates supporters who have not joined in the bashing here are the Reverend AL's. And he doesn't have two first names.

[JVS]

11. Lieberman's are clear too.

I've seen bashing from someone with a Sharpton avatar, but I think he was for Kerry anyway. Generally the less supporters a candidate has at DU the less likely the supporters are to engage in bashing.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. It's a WASP thing

When I was in grad school at Yale, one of my friends pointed out that the sign of a true WASP male was having a last name as a first name. The prime example at the time was the president of Yale, Kingman Brewster.

[Clark Can WIN]

13. Our butchers name was George George

when I was a kid. He would have made a fine president. I say this because he gave me a free slice of bologna and a candy bar on every visit.

Presidents have to be good at dishing out sweet boloney. pa dum pum.

[AP]

14. If Kucinich changed his name to Dennis Kramer, he'd go up 10 pts?

Forget Tsongas and Dukakis. America loves its wasps.

[JVS]

17. Kramer is an English name?

[AP]

20. Just picking first K name that came to mind that wasn't "ethnic" sounding

to me.

Kramer is Saxon-sounding, if not Anglo.

[TexasSissy]

16. LOL LOL

[plurality]

18. Don't forget...

Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.