Impact of 3 one-term presidencies: Bush, Kerry, McCain?

[sciscisciortino]

Obama '12 seems likely to me: both parties will be extensively internally hollowed out by this point.

 

[Md139115]

The bigger impact will be in the change in policies from President to President, not that we'd have multiple one term Presidencies in a row which is fairly common. From 1953 to 1989 only two Presidents - Ike and Reagan - were elected to two full terms. In fact, having every President from 1993 to 2017 be re-relected is what's unusual.

More than that, only four presidents of the entire 20th Century served a normal two terms: Clinton, Reagan, Eisenhower, and Wilson. And before Wilson, the only ones were Grant, Jackson, and the founding fathers sans Adams. It really is an aberration in American politics historically speaking.

 

[History Learner]

Why does Kerry lose if the Recession is delayed?

 

[TimTurner]

it'd be hard for the Recession to be delayed much longer than it already was. By the time Greenspan left, the die was cast.

 

[Wendell]

Obama '12 seems likely to me: both parties will be extensively internally hollowed out by this point.

2016 is likelier. Obama's second senate term would be ending, and there would be a widespread assumption that McCaain could be reelected, especially if the recession is not delayed.