'allo Gov'nah
How many U.S. governors can you name off the top of your head? Go ahead. Think about it before going on (spoilers below!). I'll wait.
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Done? Okay. See, I was talking to someone from Illinois about something not-at-all-political, and I mentioned something about Blagojevich, much to the other person's surprise. "How do you know who our governor is?" he asked. I explained that I had grown up in Chicago and still had family there, yadda yadda.
But it got me thinking. I probably tend to follow politics more than the average Jane or Joe, but I doubt I could even name half the country's governors. Off the top of my head I got:
And that's it. Oh, I remembered that Massachusetts had elected a black governor, but I couldn't remember his name (Deval Patrick), so that doesn't count. And it probably makes me a racist.
So: eight. Out of fifty (not to mention territories; sorry Aníbal Acevedo Vilá! oh, and a happy belated birthday to you). Of course, once I checked a full list of governors, there were several I realized I did know (Sebelius! Duh; Barbour; Jindal; O'Malley—right next door! Strickland; Rendell; Perry).
But even more surprising was the number of executives I'd never heard of. Dave Freudenthal?! Wikipedia doesn't even know what you look like.
Which is all a long way to tell you this has been this site's most boring post to-date. But at least I didn't talk about Valentine's Day.
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Done? Okay. See, I was talking to someone from Illinois about something not-at-all-political, and I mentioned something about Blagojevich, much to the other person's surprise. "How do you know who our governor is?" he asked. I explained that I had grown up in Chicago and still had family there, yadda yadda.
But it got me thinking. I probably tend to follow politics more than the average Jane or Joe, but I doubt I could even name half the country's governors. Off the top of my head I got:
- Blagojevich (obviously)
- Kaine
- Richardson
- Napolitano
- Spitzer
- Corzine
- Schwarzenegger
- Crist
And that's it. Oh, I remembered that Massachusetts had elected a black governor, but I couldn't remember his name (Deval Patrick), so that doesn't count. And it probably makes me a racist.
So: eight. Out of fifty (not to mention territories; sorry Aníbal Acevedo Vilá! oh, and a happy belated birthday to you). Of course, once I checked a full list of governors, there were several I realized I did know (Sebelius! Duh; Barbour; Jindal; O'Malley—right next door! Strickland; Rendell; Perry).
But even more surprising was the number of executives I'd never heard of. Dave Freudenthal?! Wikipedia doesn't even know what you look like.
Which is all a long way to tell you this has been this site's most boring post to-date. But at least I didn't talk about Valentine's Day.
posted by Stanley at 21:06
4 Comments:
Here are the ones I could think of offhand:
- Schwarzenegger
- Napolitano
- Richardson
- Perry
- Easley
- Strickland
- Kaine
- Rendell
- Spitzer
- Patrick
- Granholm
- Rell
- Blagojevich
- Sebelius
- Schweitzer
- Bredesen
That's 16. Looking at the list, there are a few others I knew but couldn't remember the names of, and more that I couldn't remember but was actually familiar with at some point.
I am pleased that you remember the governor of my beloved home-state.
I totally recognize a lot of those names as being names of governors and even know what states a lot of them are governors of; but I would be hard pressed to name even the governor of my own state off-hand. (I would hem and haw and say "Uh...Corzine?" Which would be correct but spoken in way too uncertain a tone of voice.)
next, Senators!
Go!
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