Mid-term elections have historically not been kind to the party of the sitting president.
He was respectful to the sitting President, but in no way awed by his presence.
He will become the second sitting president in Africa to face charges at the International Criminal Court.
Mr. Clinton would not be the first sitting president to testify as a witness in a criminal proceeding.
This is the first time a sitting President is early voting in person.
An election with a sitting president is always a referendum on the incumbent.
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So far, no sitting president who has avoided a primary challenge has lost.
Kenya will become the second African nation after Sudan to have a sitting president facing charges at the International Criminal Court.
Note, too, that he almost lost the nomination as a sitting president to Ronald Reagan, who by then owned the mantle of Taftism.
However, the Malawi defence forces, which provides security for the sitting president, shifted security members to Banda's residence amid news of the death.
In that vote, a sitting president managed to increase his party's share of congressional seats in a mid-term election for the first time since 1934.
Naturally, their owners do not want to antagonize a sitting president.
The rule says that the percentage of the vote a sitting president gets in polls is a better indicator of the state of the race than the margin.
The liberal fighter stormed all the way to the floor of the Democratic convention that year to try to wrest the nomination from Jimmy Carter, a sitting president.
Guy Molyneux, a Democratic pollster, points out that in the past four elections with a sitting president, the incumbent's actual vote was almost exactly the same as his final polling number.
Given that President Jacques Chirac was mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995, it is perhaps convenient that Mr Dumas's Constitutional Council has ruled that a sitting president cannot be investigated.
Similar plaques with signatures - including those of the sitting president and vice-president -- adorn the lander platforms for NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers, which landed on Mars in January of 2004.
Mr Obama was the first of the two rivals to cast their ballot by voting last month in his adopted home city of Chicago, and becoming the first sitting president to vote before election day.
President Obama has at least acknowledged the frustrations of the OWS protesters in his public speeches and during an unprecedented appearance (by a sitting President) on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Oct. 25, 2011.
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Meanwhile, a maverick Socialist member of parliament, Arnaud Montebourg, is gathering his colleagues' signatures in a surely futile, but nonetheless headline-grabbing attempt to change the constitution so that a sitting president can be made to answer questions from the magistrates.
The Republican Party built on its majority in the House of Representatives, marking only the second time since 1934 that a sitting president's party didn't lose House seats in a midterm ballot -- the first time for a Republican president since 1902.
Kenyatta, 51, the son of Kenya's first president, becomes the second sitting African president to face charges at the International Criminal Court over allegations he helped orchestrate the vicious tribe-on-tribe violence that marred Kenya's 2007 presidential election.
The Democratic President, Jackson Evans (Jeff Bridges), a wily, dominating fellow who may not be good at heart, nominates a woman, Senator Laine Hanson (Joan Allen), to be his Vice-President after the sitting Vice-President dies.
First, no foreign leader can win a popularity contest against a sitting US president.
He becomes the first sitting French president in three decades not to be re-elected.
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Biden, the first sitting vice president to participate in the annual re-enactment, said nothing shaped his consciousness more than watching TV footage of the beatings.
In the 1970s, Nixon became the first sitting American president to visit that country, but in the 1870s Ulysses S. Grant was the first former occupant of the White House to do so.
Mr Obama, who was senator for Illinois and lived in Chicago before his election to the White House, will be the first sitting US president to take on such a direct role in an Olympic bid.
I've covered caucuses where one party wasn't competing because they had a sitting incumbent president, or in 1992, none of the Democrats came here because Senator Tom Harkin who was a favorite son was running and everyone else decided not to compete.
But Gerhard Casper worries that any president sitting on a board can pose a conflict of interest.
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