Heard today that there has never been a party to win the White House three times in a row.......

[a kennedy]

Public Radio today. I think it was on some show in this time lot. Has not happened since 1980 something....... So do the Dems take back the Senate in 2016?

http://www.wpr.org/programs/point

[Kalidurga]

1. I guess we have no choice then we must nominate Bernie

cuz I keep hearing he is not a democrat.

[RichGirl]

17. Reagan won two terms then Bush won one.

That's 3 GOP wins in a row. Maybe they mean 3 different presidents.

[Kalidurga]

18. I am not sure what they mean

Especially if they start history with 1980. The history of this continent goes back a few thousand years as far as being populated.

[XemaSab]

2. That's bullshit! 1980-1992 eom

[hifiguy]

3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman

beg to differ. FDR won in '32, '36, '40 and'44. Harry won in '48.

[Warpy]

4. Sounds like some idiot who thinks the world came into being with his birth

Of course that's been the case quite a few times in our history.

[PoliticAverse]

5. Even if true those type of statistics are basically meaningless. n/t

[Thinkingabout]

6. Oh, really, short memories here, Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, 1984 and

George H W Bush was elected in 1988, that would be three times, I am surprised history wasn't researched. FDR was elected in 1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944, Truman served from FDR's fourth term and was elected in 1948, that would be a total of five straight terms.

[Snobblevitch]

7. I didn't go to the link,

but FDR and Truman made it five times in a row. Reagan - Bush was three times in a row. That's off the top of my head.

I looked it up and there was a 28 year stretch of Democratic-Republican presidents from 1801 - 1829, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams).

Then there were Jackson (first Democrat) and Van Buren from 1829 - 1841.From 1869 to 1885 they were all Republican, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur.Well, you get the idea. There were three consecutive Republicans at least twice more before FDR.

[cyberswede]

8. Weird - even I remember Reagan-Reagan-Bush

"Never" must mean something else to NPR.

[RandySF]

9. NPR must be hiring idiots.

[Fumesucker]

12. Now Perfectly Republican

[haele]

10. People have short memories. 1980, 1984, 1988. Reagan, Reagan, Bush.

Before that, we had....
Jefferson, Jefferson, Madison, Madison, Monroe, Monroe, JQ Adams - Democratic Republican

Jackson, Jackson, Van Burien - Democratic

Grant, Hayes, Garfield/Arthur -Republican

Mac-Kinley/Roosevelt (TR), Roosevelt(TR), Taft - Republican

Harding, Coolidge, Hoover - Republican

FDR, FDR, FDR, FDR/Truman, Truman - Democratic

and of course, Reagan, Reagan, GHW Bush - Republican

So, out of the 57 times there's been a president, there have been:
One time we had 7 consecutive presidents of one party.

One time we had 5 consecutive presidents of one party (two serving the same term - technically could be considered 4 terms).

Twice we had 4 consecutive presidents of one party (with two pairs serving the same term, so technically that could be considered three terms)

And three times - twice that are technically within living memory - we have had three elected presidents of the same party serving consecutive terms.

So NPR is spouting a party line of BS. I suspect this is to appease corporate sponsors.

Haele

[a kennedy]

11. Thanks.......NPR.....ugh..eom

[Frustratedlady]

13. If the Republicans win, our country is in sadder shape than I realized...

And we are all in deep doo-doo.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I can't tolerate 4-8 more years of Republicans trying to run this country, or what's left of it after Ryan takes the reins.

[Agnosticsherbet]

14. Democrats did it twice, Republicans 4 times.

It us rare, but not unheard of.

[Mister Ed]

15. Heck, there's an individual who won the White house four times in a row: FDR. n/t

[dflprincess]

16. Clinton '92, '96, Gore 2000

[Chitown Kev]

19. To answer your other question

I don't see how see how the Dems win the White House without taking the Senate

[WillowTree]

20. "Never" and "not since 1980 something" are entirely different things.

As if "1980 something" was the beginning of history. And what does that have to do with the Senate?

[pnwmom]

21. The voice of reason. Thank you. n/t

[TheKentuckian]

22. Even that would still be wrong. History would have to be bumped up to starting in 1992 and even that

took considerable shenanigans including a "non precedent setting" Supreme Court thugging to accomplish.