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Old 11-28-2011, 08:44 PM  
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Obama may soon be NUMBER ONE!!!

By moving George H. W. Bush to #2 on this list






There have been nearly a dozen one term presidents who ran for second terms but were denied by voters, but only three one term presidents since World War II. The most recent one term president who lost his bid re-election was George H.W. Bush, a Republican who lost to Democrat Bill Clinton in 1992.



Who are the other one term presidents in the history of the United States? Who are the other modern one term presidents? Why did voters turn their backs on them? Here's a look at America's one term presidents - those who ran for, but lost, re-election - through history.


1. George H.W. Bush

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Republican George H.W. Bush was the 41st president of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. He lost a campaign for re-election in 1992 to Democrat William Jefferson Clinton, who went on to serve two full terms.

Bush's official White House biography describes his re-election loss this way: "Despite unprecedented popularity from this military and diplomatic triumph, Bush was unable to withstand discontent at home from a faltering economy, rising violence in inner cities, and continued high deficit spending. In 1992 he lost his bid for reelection to Democrat William Clinton."





2. Jimmy Carter

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Democrat Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981. He lost a campaign for re-election in 1980 to Republican Ronald Reagan, who went on to serve two full terms.

Carter's White House biography blames several factors for his defeat, not the least of which was the hostage-taking of U. S. embassy staff in Iran, which dominated the news during the last 14 months of Carter's administration. "The consequences of Iran's holding Americans captive, together with continuing inflation at home, contributed to Carter's defeat in 1980. Even then, he continued the difficult negotiations over the hostages."

Iran released the 52 Americans the same day Carter left office.


3. Gerald Ford

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Republican Gerald R. Ford was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977. He lost a campaign for re-election in 1976 to Democrat Jimmy Carter, who went on to serve one term.

"Ford was confronted with almost insuperable tasks," his White House biography states. "There were the challenges of mastering inflation, reviving a depressed economy, solving chronic energy shortages, and trying to ensure world peace." In the end he could not overcome those challenges.


4. Herbert Hoover

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Republican Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. He lost a campaign for re-election in 1932 to Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, who went on to serve three full terms.

The stock market crashed within months of Hoover's first election in 1928, and the United States plunged into The Great Depression. Hoover became he scapegoat four years later.

"At the same time he reiterated his view that while people must not suffer from hunger and cold, caring for them must be primarily a local and voluntary responsibility," his biography reads. "His opponents in Congress, who he felt were sabotaging his program for their own political gain, unfairly painted him as a callous and cruel President."


5. William Howard Taft

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Republican William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States, serving from 1909 to 1913. He lost a campaign for re-election in 1912 to Democrat Woodrow Wilson, who went on to serve two full terms.

"Taft alienated many liberal Republicans who later formed the Progressive Party, by defending the Payne-Aldrich Act which unexpectedly continued high tariff rates," Taft's White House biography reads. "He further antagonized progressives by upholding his secretary of the interior, accused of failing to carry out [former President Theodore] Roosevelt's conservation policies."

When the Republicans nominated Taft for a second term, Roosevelt left the GOP and lead the Progressives, guaranteeing the election of Woodrow Wilson.


6. Benjamin Harrison

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Republican Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd president of the United States, serving from 1889 to 1893. He lost a campaign for re-election in 1892 to Democrat Grover Cleveland, who went on to serve two full terms, though not consecutively.

Harrison's administration suffered politically after a substantial Treasury surplus evaporated, and prosperity seemed about to disappear as well. The 1890 congressional elections swept in Democrats, and Republican leaders decided to abandon Harrison even though he had cooperated with Congress on party legislation, according to his White House biography. His party renominated him in 1892, but he was defeated by Cleveland.


7. Grover Cleveland*

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*Democrat Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, having served from 1885 to 1889, and 1893 to 1897. So he doesn't technically qualify as a one term president. But because Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive four-year terms, he holds an important place in U.S. history, having lost his initial bid for re-election in 1888 to Republican Benjamin Harrison.

"In December 1887 he called on Congress to reduce high protective tariffs," his bio reads. "Told that he had given Republicans an effective issue for the campaign of 1888, he retorted, 'What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?'"


8. Martin Van Buren

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Democrat Martin Van Buren served as the eighth president of the United States, serving from 1837 to 1841. He lost a campaign for re-election in 1840 to Whig William Henry Harrison, who died shortly after taking office.

"Van Buren devoted his inaugural address to a discourse upon the American experiment as an example to the rest of the world. The country was prosperous, but less than three months later the panic of 1837 punctured the prosperity," his White House biography reads.

"Declaring that the panic was due to recklessness in business and overexpansion of credit, Van Buren devoted himself to maintaining the solvency of the national Government." Still, he lost re-election.





9. John Quincy Adams

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John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States, serving from 1825 to 1829. He lost a campaign for re-election in 1828 to Andrew Jackson after his Jacksonian opponents accused him of corruption and public plunder - "an ordeal," according to his White House biography, "Adams did not easily bear."




10. John Adams

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Federalist John Adams, one of America's Founding Fathers, was the second president of the United States, having served from 1797 to 1801. "In the campaign of 1800 the Republicans were united and effective, the Federalists badly divided," Adams' White House biography reads. Adams lost his re-election campaign in 1800 in to Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson.
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Given the current crop of candidates the GOP is putting up against Obama, I think you're reaching.
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Obama is already number 1 - He has caused the most damage in this "War On Drugs" than any other president.
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Ok, given the current policies and positions of the GOP and the tea party, I think you're reaching. Yeah, everyone's pissed off at Obama; not everyone is pissed off for the same reason. Half the people who are pissed off at him are pissed because he's not liberal enough. You think those people are going to vote for a GOP candidate?
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He's broken Carter's record for lowest "job aproval" ratings ever. But dream on.
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He's broken Carter's record for lowest "job aproval" ratings ever. But dream on.
Which would matter, if the GOP's approval rating wasn't similarly abysmal. You're forgetting that half of the people who disapprove of him do so because he's not liberal enough. They aren't going to vote for a GOP candidate.
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Which would matter, if the GOP's approval rating wasn't similarly abysmal. You're forgetting that half of the people who disapprove of him do so because he's not liberal enough. They aren't going to vote for a GOP candidate.
I don't care if you like him or not, we are going to see on one of the ugliest elections ever. It won't matter who the GOP puts up, the Dems will try to destroy them because they won't be able to defend the O's economy, policies and lack of leadership. Should be entertaining.

I think it's a sad commentary on the US as a whole, but both parties are just as much to blame as the other. Neither one really cares about the average working man. Neither wants to promote anything but self serving interests. I hate to think of the legacy and burdens we are leaving our children and grandkids. Wasn't it Jefferson that said something like This Republic is a pretty good thing IF you can keep it?
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Which would matter, if the GOP's approval rating wasn't similarly abysmal. You're forgetting that half of the people who disapprove of him do so because he's not liberal enough. They aren't going to vote for a GOP candidate.
Yes, maybe, (more like a quarter or less), but you're forgetting that he's PO'd the swing voters, such as myself, who will not neccessarily be voting for a candidate as they will be NOT FOR HIM. He's OUT, adios, have a good trip back to Chicago.
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But who on earth will have enough charisma to earn the votes? The republicans only have clowns running for the presidency. Maybe an unknown?
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