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   uh-oh said, 5 months ago

   Who has failed to get re-inaugurated once reelected?
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   KPOM said, 5 months ago

   @uh-oh

   No one, as both FDR and Lincoln lasted a month after their final re-elections. However, in general second terms are lackluster, even for otherwise successful presidents such as Reagan and Clinton. Sometimes they are disastrous (Bush II, Nixon).
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   Darsan54 said, 5 months ago

   Well, it’s simple. The first time you have made a massive effort to build an organization and “movement” from scratch to realize a nearly impossible goal. In the second, you hopefully have some expertise and experience and money. Still capturing a goal, but a little less unexpected.

   And really you’re comparing FDR’s dying and Lincoln’s assassination as points about lackluster 2nd terms?
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   Norbert Ginsel said, 5 months ago

   Second inaugurations are like second weddings…… they exemplify the triumph of hope over experience.
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   CharlieTuba said, 5 months ago

   @KPOM

   But remember, FDR was reelected three times.
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   CharlieTuba said, 5 months ago

   The people are called “Maya” (both singular and plural). Mayan is the language of the Maya and an adjective form of “Maya.” There is no such word as “Mayans.”
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   CharlieTuba said, 5 months ago

   @KPOM

   No one ever elected Grover Norquist, at least not to public office.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago

   The Maya never predicted the “end of the world” for the end of their calender. Only Anglo New Agers made that mistake.
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   peter stampfel said, 5 months ago

   @CharlieTuba

   thanks! just used mayans in a song my partner & i wrote, and i’ll correct it.
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    seybernetx said, 5 months ago

    @Norbert Ginsel

    Beat me to it.
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    seybernetx said, 5 months ago

    @CharlieTuba

    Nor George Soros, at least to my knowledge. What’s your point?
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    Potrzebie said, 5 months ago

    I hope he gets a Junior Supreme court judge to administer the oath this time, so there aren’t any flubs.
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    K M said, 5 months ago

    @CharlieTuba

    Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. What do you get for three and four?
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    exoticdoc2 said, 5 months ago

    We can only hope.
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    zoidknight said, 5 months ago

    @KPOM

    Actually, the disasterous one was Clinton. He passed all the bills that got us into the mess.
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