However, they also predict that things will prove much more difficult in his second term.
President George W. Bush was unable to make changes to Social Security in his second term.
Teddy Roosevelt won it in his second term for helping end the Russo-Japanese War.
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But in his second term, since 1995, he has appeared loth to add to that record.
In his second term Mr Blair drove through reforms to enhance choice and competition.
In his second term Reagan was frequently detached from day-to-day business and displayed some symptoms of Alzheimer's.
Despite his larger parliamentary contingent, he may find governing harder in his second term than his first.
Mr Macri, a conservative in his second term as mayor, plans to run for president in 2015.
Bill Clinton tackled it and tabled it in his second term when he dealt with the race initiative.
At 72, he would be the oldest president ever inaugurated, apart from Ronald Reagan in his second term.
Ahmadinejad, with a year left in his second term, was a lame duck.
In his second term, Spain's so far relaxed race relations may be tested.
But sometime in his second term the Bush executive ran out of energy.
The President campaigned on and won reelection on a platform of pursuing comprehensive immigration reform early in his second term.
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In his second term in office, in 1997-1999, Mr. Sharif, however, fell out with the then-army chief of staff, Gen.
After Harold Washington died suddenly, in his second term, his achievement, such as it was, fell to pieces almost at once.
And as George W. Bush learned in his second term, hammering out a compromise on such a volatile issue is maddeningly elusive.
Is this all that unusual for a president in his second term?
Woodrow Wilson won it in his second term for his efforts to form the League of Nations (which the US never joined).
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The domestic issues on which Mr Bush had wanted to focus in his second term have been put in peril by Katrina.
Another worry has been Mr Menem's disappointing failure in his second term to maintain the pace of structural change of his first term.
Currently in his second term as New Mexico's governor, he served as ambassador to the United Nations and energy secretary in the Clinton administration.
Currently in his second term as New Mexico's governor, he previously served as ambassador to the United Nations and energy secretary in the Clinton administration.
You know, every president, almost every president in his second term reaches out to try to write something in his legacy about a big breakthrough.
In his second term in office, Bush ignored the significance of Hamas's electoral victory in January 2006 and its takeover of Gaza in June 2007.
So this is something that he hopes and believes will enjoy bipartisan support when he addresses it, and he will address it early in his second term.
At a provincial election last month Mr Charest managed to win a third term with a narrow majority (having governed with a legislative minority in his second term).
President Obama might still give it another try in his second term, but for now there seems to be little enthusiasm for doing anything about carried interest in Washington.
Irked, the Obama campaign retorted that if re-elected, Mr Obama had promised to visit Israel in his second term, and that Ronald Reagan never once made it there as president.
Mr Ban Ki-moon has placed education at the top of his agenda in his second term as UN Secretary General, and at the heart of the new global sustainability agenda currently being defined.
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