The Scrapbook stopped caring about the Grammys ages ago. Like all entertainment awards, they’re not much a measure of talent. Long ago they devolved into the self-satisfied celebration of a self-satisfied industry. And in no way is the music biz more pleased with itself than in its politics, which are—except for the occasional country act—reliably left-wing. Nowhere is that more on display than in the Grammys’ “Spoken Word” category, which is generally a prize for the year’s most prominent liberal. This year should be no exception: Bernie Sanders has been nominated for a Grammy for the audio version of his book Our Revolution.

Sanders (with some help from actor Mark Ruffalo) narrates his own book. Have you heard Sanders speak? There’s a certain arresting quality to the man’s voice that serves him politically, but let’s face it: Sinatra he ain’t. (Maybe more an aged Christopher Walken.) There’s no way to stick a microphone in front of Bernie for hours on end and produce anything that deserves to be honored for audio excellence. Nonetheless, Sanders is the odds-on favorite to win. As the Hollywood Reporter notes:

Sanders is far from the first politician to score a spoken-word nomination, with his former Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton being nominated in 2004 for Living History and winning in 1997 for It Takes a Village. Former president Bill Clinton won in 2005 for My Life and was nominated two other times. Barack Obama has two Grammys, winning in 2006 for Dreams from My Father and 2008 for The Audacity of Hope. Jimmy Carter also has two Grammys (and multiple nominations), winning his latest one in 2016 for A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety.

And of course don’t forget Al Gore’s 2009 Grammy for An Inconvenient Truth. And there is that as-yet-unrevoked 2002 Grammy for Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, read by grabby-handed author Al Franken.

One gets the sense there aren’t a lot of Republicans in the Recording Academy. And these days there may not be very many happy Democrats, either. Hillary Clinton’s latest audiobook, her failed-campaign score-settler, came out just a few weeks before the September 30 deadline, making it eligible for this year’s Grammys. And yet she was not nominated. The snub from the entertainment-wing of the Democratic party was such that Hillary must be wondering What Happened?