A small piece of campaign trivia for you. This is from a Michael Cooper piece on John McCain that ran in Sunday's New York Times:

CLAREMONT, N.H., July 14 - Without much money, or a private jet or even one of his trademark campaign buses, Senator John McCain brought his newly stripped-down campaign to an American Legion post here on Saturday and stood in a stifling hot room for an hour and a half fielding questions from voters like Frank Fahey.

Mr. Fahey, a 64-year-old retired teacher who is a registered Republican, told Mr. McCain that he was "an American hero" who received his vote in the state Republican presidential primary in 2000. But he wanted to know about the perception that Mr. McCain had become too close to President Bush since then. And what, he asked Mr. McCain, about those pundits who "pretty much sang the death knell of the McCain campaign" this week?

"I should have called on your wife," Mr. McCain said, to laughter.

As it turns out, this is the same Frank Fahey who asked a question of another presidential candidate touring Claremont, New Hampshire some 20 years ago, and the candidate's answer became a small part of campaign history.

In 1987 Fahey asked then Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden about his academic credentials. Biden responded to Fahey with, shall we say, considerably less aplomb than Senator McCain did last weekend:

"I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do."

Biden went on to tout his academic record at law school saying that he finished near the top of his class. It later came out that Senator IQ's math was more than a bit off: Biden graduated law school ranked 76th out of a class of 85.

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