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Over three-fourths of Americans think there should be a maximum age limit for elected officials, according to a CBS News/YouGov survey.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I think term limits on the presidency meant that Trump ran against Clinton instead of Obama.

    Obama was more popular than Clinton.

    • Hello Hotel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Hillary, Why pick her over anyone else when her stigma was so intensely negitive? Isnt their goal to get their person in that chair via the election.

    • Franzia
      2·
      1 year ago

      That’s okay and that’s the democracy we chose.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I would have rather had a third term of Obama than what we got with Trump, and I think term limits for the presidency were a shortsighted mistake.

        • Franzia
          6·
          1 year ago

          I… appreciate that sentiment, but I also fear how history has taught us long terms can lead to leader who… don’t wanna leave. Of course that didn’t stop trump from trying.

          • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Of course that didn’t stop trump from trying.

            And he had the same term limits as anyone else since 1951. Who fought the peaceful transition of power prior to 1951?

            • Franzia
              1·
              1 year ago

              Well trump didnt reach the 2 term limit. That was his first. I acknowledge he is different, but I’m open to what point you’re trying to make?