Democrats love Sleepy Joe; so maybe I am being too hard on them. In order to throw his supporters a sop I am giving them a campaign theme song that is older than Biden:
Biden leads, Warren and Sanders tied for second in new poll
By Jonathan Easley
07/19/19 09:03 AM EDT
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...nd-in-new-poll
Incidentally, months before the 2016 election I speculated on the odds against the next president surviving in office:
William Henry Harrison [1841] Died in office
Zachary Taylor [1849-1850] 9 years after Harrison
Abraham Lincoln [1861-1865] 15 years after Taylor
James A. Garfield [1881] 16 years after Lincoln
William McKinley [1897-1901] 20 years after Garfield
Warren G. Harding [1921-1923] 22 years after McKinley
Franklin D. Roosevelt [1933-1945] 22 years after Harding
John F. Kennedy [1961-1963] 18 years after FDR
Starting with Taylor in 1850 and ending with JFK in 1963 you get an average of 17.4 years between presidents dying in office.
NOTE: Ronald Reagan beat the odds when he survived an assassination attempt in 1981. That was 18 years after JFK died in office.
Trump took office 53 years after JFK.
Biden was born in 1942. That means he will take office 57 years after JFK. Bottom line: The odds against Sleepy Joe surviving in office are getting longer should he somehow defeat President Trump in 2020. Assuming Biden is not full-bore senile before 2024 the odds against him surviving in office a second term are prohibitive.
On the plus side, Sleepy Joe’s advancing age make him assassination proof. Think about it!
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