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Free Republic Founder Calls for Revolution

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Salamantis7/19/2009 11:24:17 am PDT

re: #130 Bloodnok

So it’s that easy? Lose an election, do nothing and then just wait and everything will be okay again?

It depends upon how well (or poorly) the party in power does.

Eisenhower, Clinton and Dubya did well enough to win second terms, and Reagan did well enough to not only get re-elected, but to have his VP succeed him. Carter, otoh, was a Dem one-termer succeeded by a Repub, and although Nixon won re-election, when he resigned in his second term, his ad hoc successor, Gerald Ford, couldn’t get elected to a term of his own.