Sunday, January 6, 2013

About to jump in the rankings

Amazing! This is post 2000 for my little blog. It has taken me only a bit more than 5 years to write that many posts. Congratulations to all of you who have read all of them.

Lately, each post has been getting 12-13 views with some variation around that number. Over the last month the most visits have come from Russia, USA, and Britain.

On to something that I'm posting just because it interests me..

Wikipedia has a page of the US Presidents sorted by their time in office. There have been 43 men in the office (Grover Cleveland's two terms were not consecutive which is why Obama is 44). 10 served less than one full term (with poor William Harrison serving only 30 days). An even dozen served one full term. 7 served more than one term, but less than two. Another even dozen served two full terms (though Washington's first term got a late start). And Franklin Roosevelt will be forever at the top serving three terms and 40 days.

Those tallies don't include Obama. If he lives to at least the day after his Second Inauguration he will jump from his current 33rd place to 21st place in length of service. And about 40 days after that he will pass Lincoln.

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