CLEP US History II

Answer: B - Four Democratic presidents have been reelected since the Civil War: Cleveland, Wilson, F. Roosevelt. and Clinton. By comparison, seven Republican presidents have been re-elected in the same time frame: Lincoln, Grant, McKinley, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, and G.W. Bush. While the numbers might give the impression that Republican presidents create a greater collective sense of stability, it could also be noted that the man who achieved the longest presidency, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was a Democrat.