How long has it been since Democratic President was elected 3 times in a row?

[Triana]

In my entire lifetime it's been 8 years of Dems, (sometimes only 4), then a Republican for 8 looooooooooooong and hideously destructive years.

Given that rather hideous pattern, what hope have we in 2016, particularly when Republican candidates have unlimited money floating around to buy them a Presidency with?

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Truman in '48. n/t

[LeftishBrit]

2. Gore in 2000, but....

[marym625]

3. +1000

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. The Republicants pulled it off with Bush Pere and came within a hair of pulling it off ...

The Republicants pulled it off with Bush Pere and came within a hair of pulling it off with Dick Nixon.

[onehandle]

8. Yeppers.

Thanks, Ralph.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. Demographics/NT

[Stellar]

6. I wasn't born when Franklin D. Roosevelt was first elected POTUS

32nd President of the United States

In office
March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945

and he died in office.

[Triana]

7. Not in my lifetime. I'm talking since the 1960s or so.

I thought of FDR but that's before my time ie: not in the past 50 years.

[Stellar]

9. Okay..Got'cha!

[Autumn]

10. 2000. Al Gore, but a corrupt supreme court stepped in and gave it to a republican.

[beachbum bob]

12. 2016 will be the first in my lifetime

when hillary-warren ticket wins the presidency and congress is won back from the conservatives

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. We have the crazier-than-ever that is today's GOP.

[FSogol]

14. About the same hope that a black man could be elected after 43 white Presidents.

GOTV.