No. That’s the reason I said ‘party’ instead of person. Nixon/Ford held it for 8 and of course REAGAN/bush held it for 12.
Following the Cleveland(D)-Harrison(R)-Cleveland(D) election results of the late 1800s, McKinnely/TR/Taft held the WH for the GOP for 16 years. Thereafter, Wilson/D/8 years. Harding-Coolidge-Hoover/R/12 yrs. FDR/Truman/D/20 yrs. Ike/R/8
JFK-LBJ/8., etc.
So history is on 0bama’s side sad to say.
‘So history is on Obama’s side sad to say.’
WRONGO.
In the past 124 years, every President, save one, who was elected to their first term as President in a year ending in an ‘8’ has lost re-election. The lone exception was Richard Nixon who was forced to resign two years after re-election.
In 1888, Benjamin Harrison was elected to his first term as President. He was defeated by Grover Cleveland in 1892.
In 1908, William Howard Taft was elected to his first term as President. He was defeated by Woodrow Wilson in 1912.
In 1928, Herbert Hoover was elected to his first term as President. He was defeated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932.
Harry S. Truman was already the sitting President in 1948 so his election as President was not his first term.
In 1968, Richard Nixon was elected to his first term as President. He was re-elected in 1972 only to resign in 1974.
In 1988, George HW Bush was elected to his first term as President. He was defeated by Bill Clinton in 1992.
In 2008, Barak Obama was elected to his first term as President. He WILL be defeated by Mitt Romney in 2012.