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[00:00.04]President Barack Obama is asking voters to elect Democrat Hillary Clinton
[00:06.20]or risk dangerous policy changes by Republican Donald Trump.
[00:12.96]But Clinton, who made history as the first woman
[00:17.00]to win a major party presidential nomination, faces a historical problem.
[00:23.92]Only once since 1960 has a two-term president been replaced by a candidate from the same party.
[00:33.72]Democrat Clinton is trying to succeed Democrat Obama,
[00:39.08]who ends his 2nd term as president on January 20, 2017.
[00:47.24]Clinton is scheduled to accept the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday
[00:53.24]at the party's convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
[00:58.08]Trump, a wealthy businessman, accepted the Republican nomination in Cleveland, Ohio, last week.
[01:06.36]It is difficult to succeed a two-term president of the same party
[01:12.16]because voters often want change, said Matthew Kerbel.
[01:17.56]He is the chair of the political science department at Villanova University in Pennsylvania.
[01:25.40]"It will be tough for Hillary Clinton to make a credible argument
[01:30.08]that she will bring a change in direction," Kerbel said.
[01:34.40]"What Hillary has going for her is that Donald Trump hasn't yet sold the nation
[01:41.12]on the type of change he would bring if elected president."
[01:45.44]The one time in the last 56 years a candidate
[01:50.56]succeeded a two-term president of the same party was in 1988.
[01:56.85]Republican George H.W. Bush beat Democrat Michael Dukakis
[02:03.12]to succeed Republican President Ronald Reagan.
[02:07.60]Bush was Reagan's vice president and some called his election, "Reagan's third term."
[02:15.60]All other efforts since 1960 failed.
[02:20.68]In 1960, Republican Richard Nixon lost to Democrat John F. Kennedy,
[02:27.52]as he tried to succeed two-term Republican President Dwight Eisenhower.
[02:33.88]In 1968, Democrat Hubert Humphrey lost to Republican Nixon
[02:40.16]to succeed Democrat Lyndon Johnson.
[02:44.00]Johnson served the final 14 months of Kennedy's first term
[02:49.20]and then four more years after his election in 1964.
[02:55.20]Nixon won a 2nd term in 1972.
[03:00.32]Republican Gerald Ford, who became president after Nixon resigned in 1974,
[03:07.52]lost the 1976 presidential election to Democrat Jimmy Carter.
[03:14.16]In 2000, Democrat Al Gore lost to Republican George W. Bush.
[03:21.40]Gore was trying to succeed Democrat Bill Clinton,
[03:25.72]Hillary's husband, who served two terms as president.
[03:31.00]Gore was Clinton's vice president.
[03:34.76]In 2008, Obama defeated Republican John McCain.
[03:40.52]McCain was hoping to replace George W. Bush.
[03:45.12]McCain asked Bush not to campaign for him.
[03:50.04]Bush was unpopular because of a major economic collapse in 2008
[03:56.36]and an unpopular war in Iraq.
[04:00.40]At the convention on Tuesday night,
[04:03.20]all speakers talked about Hillary Clinton's historical achievement but one – Bill Clinton.
[04:10.92]The former president had this to say about his wife:
[04:15.72]"She's the best darn change-maker I've ever met in my whole life."
[04:22.28]Clinton has said she wants Obama to campaign for her
[04:26.36]and Obama has said he will do so often between now and the Nov. 8th election.
[04:33.32]A Washington Post/ABC News poll last month
[04:38.20]said 56 percent of Americans view Obama favorably,
[04:43.48]his highest rating in five years.
[04:47.12]Obama beat Clinton for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
[04:53.56]But he said, "there has never been a candidate better prepared for the presidency than Hillary Clinton."
[05:01.48]The president also criticized Trump for failing to "spend a lot of time trying to find out about issues,"
[05:10.48]such as U.S. nuclear defense options,
[05:14.16]or the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims.
[05:18.12]Trump responded Wednesday by saying it is Obama and Clinton who are not prepared to lead the country.
[05:27.04]On Wednesday, he called Obama "the most ignorant president in our history" and "a disaster."
[05:35.40]"And I believe Hillary Clinton is even worse," he said.
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