Comments on: Presidential Trivia Tidbits

By: Bart

Bart — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:09:59 +0000

Also A.W.,Obamas term is not over yet.

By: Jeremy Pierce

Jeremy Pierce — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:29:11 +0000

George W. Bush did face an assassination attempt, though. Of course, most recent presidents have. But if the curse is that every president elected in a year ending in zero either dies in office or faces an assassination attempt, then it doesn’t break with Reagan or Bush.

If it was a curse initiated in 1811, why didn’t it affect James Monroe, who was elected in 1820? Seriously, if people are going to attribute this trend to a curse, the least they could have done is find some event between 1820 and 1840 to tie it to.

By: A.W.

A.W. — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:23:30 +0000

Kalt,

Well, one theory is that since Reagan was shot, the curse wasn’t beat yet. fwiw, which admittedly is not much.

By: Brian Kalt

Brian Kalt — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:55:33 +0000

A.W., it ended in 1989 when President Reagan left office alive.

By: CrazyTrain

CrazyTrain — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:45:52 +0000

Ahh, the importance of punctuation. At first, I read “He is, not surprisingly, the first Barack to appear on a presidential ticket” as “He is not, surprisingly, the first Barack to appear on a presidential ticket” and thought who was the first one then?

By: A.W.

A.W. — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:01:49 +0000

You left out this tidbit. As of noon today, apparently the curse of tecumseh is officially dead.

While Wiki is not generally trustworthy, this page on it is accurate so far as i know, to fill you in on this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_Tippecanoe