It's almost time for Washington and Lee University's 100th-anniversary mock convention, which means it won't be long before we know who will win the 2008 presidential primaries.

Seriously, the mock convention boasts an accuracy rate so high that it has only been wrong once since 1948. It was Harry Truman who once said, "This is a real convention."

"The convention started in 1908 after William Jennings Bryan spoke to the Washington and Lee student body," Jacob Geiger, convention press chairman, tells Inside the Beltway. "Past speakers include Harry Truman, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter."

This year's keynote speaker will be 2004 Democratic presidential candidate and retired Gen. Wesley Clark, whose kickoff address is set for 8 p.m. May 25 on Lee Chapel Lawn.