Title says it all.
Thanks.
Title says it all.
Thanks.
JFK did not serve a full term.
FDR-Truman; 1933-1953.
Ninja’d!
1933 - 1953
Five terms in a row is going to be tough to beat, especially with term limits.
The only longer run for a party was six terms for Republicans between 1861-1885 (although technically Lincoln ran on the National Union ticket in 1864).
Honestly, I think the alternation of parties has been a good thing, but I’m speaking of the days when there was one party in the administration and a loyal opposition outside of it. Not a game of king-of-the-hill with machetes.
I am gonna argue the party of Lincoln was not the Republican party, things have changed quite a bit in the last seven score years and some.
Moderating
This is not the place for political discussions of this nature. Start another thread in an appropriate forum if you want to discuss whether alternation of parties is a good thing, or how the parties have changed.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
And in any event, the point being made was the length of time under a single party’s control, and aside from whether the party of Lincoln is the same as the party of Trump, it probably was the same as the party of Benjamin Harrison.
Interesting, the only other time a Democrats held the White House three terms was Andrew Jackson/Martin Van Buren from 1829 - 1841 …
Unless you count the Democrats as being the same party as the Democratic-Republicans, in which case they held the presidency for 10 terms (1801-1841), and in any case the Democratic-Republicans held it for seven terms.
Hmm, whyever do you ask that now?
[The wink to notify the mods.]
Why is this night different from every other night?
Guys this is election day duh. :rolleyes:
Colibri, since the question has already been answered, if you’d like to move this to another forum, I’m okay with that.
Thanks for the responses guys.
That streak is phony.
We should never forget the election of 1876, because it was the worst, most corrupt, rigged election in our country’s history. Very short version: three Southern states sent two slates of electors to the Electoral College, one Democratic, one Republican. Historians agree that the Democrats had the numbers but they withdrew their electors in return for the end of Reconstruction.
It’s actually worse than that summary indicates. Here’s a still brief explanation. Nothing we do in modern times comes within miles of that level of corruption.
If only there were some magical machine from which you could obtain this info.
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No reason to. People can open a new thread if they want.