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0 pointsPaulDavisThe1st3y ago0 comments

How do you secure a multiterm presidency?

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Was Obama ever at risk of not getting two terms considering the Republican candidates?

It's not guaranteed, but you can usually guess when Presidents are popular enough to stick around for 2 terms.

In hindsight, no, at the time, absolutely. If things had gone a bit differently, he would've failed. I mean the 2012 election was about equivalent to the 2020 election, numbers wise.

germinalphrase3y ago

It also shouldn’t matter. He wins a second term, he gets a second SC pick. Longest serving justices get retired on a schedule.

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