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BUG JUG
Feb 17, 2005



Baseball episodes 1 and 2 are the best Ken burns documentaries. It's weird he never finished the series, but how do you top perfection?

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BUG JUG
Feb 17, 2005



Truman didn't succeede FDR through the electoral process my man.

BUG JUG
Feb 17, 2005



BIG HEADLINE posted:

Truman won his own campaign in 1948. It was still the last time the Democratic Party held the White House for an uninterrupted 16 year period.

Yes, but FDR had to die first in this chain of events. Truman wasn't elected President until he'd been President for three years. The distinction is, somewhat, important.

I get what you are trying to say: the democrats have not had two consecutive elected presidents since Truman won in 1948, but...how much of that is an aftereffect of Truman having been in charge for three years prior? Does the election look different if FDR dies in '43? Or lives out his term to retire in '48? Maybe! Difficult to say.

The example you are looking for -- the last time a Democrat succeeded a Democrat electorally -- is Franklin Pierce to James Buchanan. Which.....lol.

BUG JUG
Feb 17, 2005



Are we back in the cool zone?

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