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About it, after the 22nd amendment, after they said you can t run for more than two terms, you had eisenhower who had a good second term. after that, every president has had a lousy second term. and i wonder whether the fact that the president is now by definition not just tradition but by constitution, a lame duck in his second term means that he just doesn t have the kind of shadow of power that he had, the political heft. it s true that there are certain disadvantages whether it s the lack of political juice or the fact that often the a-team you could recruit for your first term is tired and may be replaced by a second string team. i think the whole second term curse doesn t hold up. it s a sloppy analysis. we have of the modern presidents, you had two of them, ronald reagan and bill clinton, who were more popular in average during the second term than they were in their first. ....

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