Desperate Democrats Recruited Jeopardy Champ for Senate Run

(By Alison Harding, CNN) - "Jeopardy!" champion Ken Jennings revealed during a online question and answer session last week that two prominent senators tried to recruit him to run for a U.S. Senate seat in 2004.

"Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Harry Reid (D-NV) both called me back personally in 2004 to try to get me to run for Orrin Hatch's Senate seat," Jennings wrote in response to a question about what types of job offers he's gotten since famously winning 74 straight games of Jeopardy!.

"I am not making this up. Win on a game show and you can apparently run for the US Senate. That was when I realized the Democratic Party was f**ked in '04," he added.

Jennings would have faced a tough race against Hatch, who had no primary challengers and easily won reelection with 63 percent of the vote in the 2006 race. Though Jennings still doesn't seem interested in a Senate bid, Hatch will likely have a tougher race this time around. Many political observers predict that the longtime senator could face a strong primary challenge from a conservative candidate when he is up for reelection again in 2012.