Will he be appointed judge? We’ll see. But if he’s done with the public life, there are always Jeopardy! reruns.

From Columbus Dispatch:

By nearly all accounts, Richard Cordray is an ambitious politician and a talented lawyer, but the 51-year-old Democrat again finds himself in political purgatory after another election.

Cordray will leave office in January after serving two years as attorney general. He fell to Republican challenger Mike DeWine in a close race Nov. 2.

It wasn’t Cordray’s first loss in a major race: He failed to win election to Congress in 1992, attorney general in 1998 and the U.S. Senate in 2000. But Cordray had been on a comeback streak in the past several years, including blowout wins for state treasurer in 2006 and for attorney general in 2008.

In a conversation this evening, Cordray wouldn’t say what’s in store for him next, but he made it clear that his name will appear on a ballot again.

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