Obama, the second term

The Republicans, of course, want to turn Barack Obama out of office at the next election, but that won't be as easy as they hope. Answers.com has the data:

How many US presidents served only one term? Depends how you define it. Twelve presidents have served a single elected term: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, James K. Polk, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush. Four vice presidents, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S. Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson, have succeeded to the presidency through the death of their predecessor, and then gone on to serve a single elected term of their own. Three presidents were elected to second terms but failed to complete them. Abraham Lincoln and William McKinley served only a few weeks or months of their second terms before being assassinated, and Richard M. Nixon resigned nineteen months into his second term. Five presidents, William H. Harrison, Zachary Taylor, James A. Garfield, Warren G. Harding, and John F. Kennedy, died or were killed during their first terms and so had no opportunity to seek a second. Five presidents, John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, and Gerald Ford, succeeded to the presidency from the vice presidency, but did not win elected terms of their own. Thus, 29 of 44 presidents were 'single-termers', by one definition or another.

Rico says the stats don't look good for getting Obama out in 2012, except by assassination, and the Secret Service will be trying hard to prevent that; it makes them look bad...