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They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot. (lemmy.sdf.org)
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[–] RattlerSix 56 points 2 months ago (2 children)

A couple thoughts...

It is talking about President, but counts years where those names appeared on the ballot as Vice President too.

It also ignores that a lot of other people have also been on the ballots over the years.

Also, some of this is natural. When a president has an 8 year run, the Vice President is a natural person to take a shot at the presidency, so it's perfectly normal to have 12 years where the same person is on the ballot as VP then P. It's natural for this to happen more than once in a row. Whether we've had this long of a streak or not, I don't know, but I suspect we might have.

This showerthought covers 44 years. The Bushs and Clintons double dipping is 12 years worth of ballots, but the other 32 years were natural. Hilary lost when she tried to double dip so I would argue the 8 years of Dubya are really the only anomaly in actual presidencies as far as "dynasties" are concerned.

[–] lunarul 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also this "shower thought" is word for word one of the popular posts on lemmy from a few weeks ago.

[–] mutant_zz 8 points 2 months ago

OP is obviously very eco-concious.. Instead of using an LLM to generate crap (and burn half the Amazon while doing it) they just recycled

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And Hillary is a Clinton through marriage so technically it shouldn't count.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I'm sure that's how it works at the ballot box too.