If you’re in politics and spent four, five or six years of your life graduating from college – you wasted your time.

McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt and David Plouffe, his counterpart on the Obama campaign, are teaming up to develop a political communications center at the University of Delaware. Both men attended the university, though they did not graduate. [overrated]

Apparently, if you want to be successful in politics, it’s better if you don’t actually finish college.  Just ask Karl Rove, who dropped out of college to take a paid position as the Executive Director of the College Republican National Committee.