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Here. Second terms tend to be more difficult. Why is that . Give us the history. Well, i dont know if i totally believe that. And i know its so popular right now that i hate to be the contrarian where were saying second terms are a curse and that theyre so much more difficult. I think any president would rather be in their second term than having to be in a first term with a huge election looming. So i think you get a lot of relief when youre president in the second term that you dont have to run again. Also, theres a notion there are scandals that occur in the second term on nixon and watergate and irancontra and lewinsky problems, all ones people raise. What they miss, is what would bill clinton have been without a second term. It wasnt the lewinsky issue that matters in the end but when he left office we had a surplus and that the triangulation worked and was able to have a balanced budget and couldnt have done it without a second term. We dont dwell on Ronald Reagans irancontra deb

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