DBWI: The Presidential Term Limit Amendment ratified?

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It basically would've limited the number of terms the president of the United States can have to two.
What would have happened if it was ratified? Would the world as we know it change all that much?
 
Nah. There's a reason no President has run for a third term since Roosevelt - it's a norm for a good reason.

Maybe Nixon not trying to win a third term in '76 after eight years in the wilderness would have changed something, but he didn't get nominated and Sanford was a shoo-in anyway.
 
Well, President Stephanie Cameron is extremely popular and some people are asking for her to run for a 3rd term in 2020 after her landslide victory last year.
 
The possibility of her running keeps her from being a lame duck, the fact that she still has that ace in her hand so to speak.

But when the time comes, she'll probably follow tradition, unless there's a really pressing reason for her not to. And this escape hatch in case there's some kind of national crisis is probably a good thing, too.
 
It is far too exhausting a job for anyone to want to try it. Still, since so few try it people don't have to keep looking out for their next election like if they were in Congress. Given the whole pendulum effect thing, people might vote out those trying for a third term, just to get change. Though given how often other incumbents keep their jobs... Well, the Electoral College actually is good in this sort of case, since it... I don't know. It does remind me of Huey Long, though. The man who, when he ended his job as Governor of Louisiana to become Senator (and resigning from all committees) still shoved the new governor out of the elevator when going to the state building. He wanted to abolish the Electoral College and said people were crazy if they thought they could get him out of the White House before he had four or five terms. And I don't mean voting him out, but deciding to leave on his own. I expect he would do what he did in Louisiana and basically appoint his successor. Do we think any politicians would have the fire, manipulation, power, etc to get them-self a fourth nomination? Besides FDR, who kind of fixed the Democratic National Convention, though just for his third. How many people got a third nomination again? Three or four?
 
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