# Why do people like Joe Biden for President?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 9, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-like-joe-biden-for-president/824254 "2018-11-09T17:26:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-like-joe-biden-for-president/824254/53 "2018-11-14T15:09:10Z")

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> [@Alessan](#):
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> It’s time to end the gerontocracy. The elderly may certainly be able to work, but perishingly few of them can do so at their full capacity. How many people, in any field, have done their best work over the age of 70? Face it: nobody peaks at 78, and America deserves someone at their peak. It’s no coincidence that all of America’s greatest presidents were in their 40s and 50s when they were first elected.

Yes. Let me repeat a recent post in another thread:

Joe Biden would be 78 years old when inaugurated for his first turn.

“Eighty is the new seventy”? Fine, but look at the history of 70-year old Presidents:  
[ul][li] Before Reagan and Trump, Eisenhower was the very first President to ever be in office at age 70. And he was a young 62 when first inaugurated.[/li][li] Before Eisenhower, only five men aged 59 or more were ever elected to a first term of President. (Adams, Jackson, Harrison, Taylor, Buchanan.)[/li][li] When Bush-41 was inaugurated at age 64, he was older than all but two prior first-inaugurees (Harrison, Buchanan). Removing the “first” stipulation adds only three names (Jackson, Eisenhower and, by just a few days, Truman).[/li][/ul]

**Thus we’re _not_ being asked to believe “Eighty is the new seventy,” _We’re being asked to believe “Eighty is the new sixty.”_**

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