11-10-2020, 10:18 PM
(11-10-2020, 10:04 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(11-10-2020, 07:48 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: All Presidencies are pigs in the poke. About 51% of the electorate saw Donald Trump as a failure.You forgot about Ford. Ford was a half term President like Biden and Harris. I don't see Biden making it a full term.
50.71% (as of the current count) of the electorate voted for Joe Biden.
Reagan got 50.75% in 1980.
Biden and Reagan ran similar campaigns in trying to make people feel good about themselves despite some ugly realities of the time. The last two Presidents to defeat a one-term President after one term for that Party's hold of the White House are Ronald Reagan and Joe Biden.
Amazing coincidence? I hope not
Ford was an untended continuation of Nixon because (1) Spiro T. Agnew proved himself a crook, and (2) Nixon resigned.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.