The Eight-Year Streak

Posted at 10:00 on November 17, 2012 by Andrew Sullivan
Obama has become the third consecutive president to win a second term. Andrew J. Polsky's reason for the trend: "recent incumbent presidents have enjoyed the advantage of early, unified support from their own party." He continues: To secure a nomination by acclamation, as most recent incumbent presidents have done, confers an extraordinary advantage on a candidate...