Reply #18: Imagine Obama winning 4 terms

[Awsi Dooger]

The public associates one party with ultimate control, for well beyond a decade. That has magnificent residue. It's almost hard to imagine the other side in power. My dad always tells me the Republicans thought they would never get in office again, hence the desperate 22nd Amendment.

The young voters who came of voting age during FDR's terms have been reliably Democratic. Pollster.com broke that down with charts a couple of years ago. It's a myth that voting tendencies alter with age. If you align yourself with one side when you begin to vote, the significant majority of the time you remain there. FDR was, and is, a tremendous boost in terms of how the Democratic party was viewed. Hardly a coincidence there were only two Republican terms, and from a war hero, in more than 20 years after he died, until 1968 when the South began to drift as a result of the civil rights act.