I owe thanks to Biggby Coffee & their e-mails to me for this info. ;)
- This is the first time in 80 years that neither an incumbent President nor an incumbent Vice President ran for their party's nomination in the presidential election.
- Whoever is elected as the new president will be the first president in 184 years to take office after multiple consecutive two-term presidential administrations.
- This is the first time in the history of the United States that 2 sitting U.S. Senators are running against each other for President.
- It is the first time that both candidates were born outside of the continental United States - Barack Obama in Hawaii and John McCain in the Panama Canal Zone.
- For the first time we will have either an African American President or a female Vice President.
5 comments:
loved it!!
Thanks!
That's really interesting!
I don't get #2. Doesn't the first year of coming in after multiple consecutive two-term administrations count? For instance, when George W. was elected in 2000 he was coming in afer multiple two-term administrations. Did he get disqualified after he was elected to a second term? Not to be a pain. I just don't get how it's the first in 184 years. If Obama is elected to a second term does he then not hold the record either?
Cassie--George W. only followed a single two-term administration, Bill Clinton's. His father, George H.W. Bush, only served a single term in office. If you look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States#endnote_Note01D and trace backwards from Barack Obama, you have to get all the way back to John Quincy Adams to find a president who followed at least two presidents in a row who served two full terms (following Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, who all served two terms).
Hope that helps!
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