[Alberta's Child]

He's still popular enough that if there were no prohibition on a President 'serving' more than two terms, he'd still be President.

This is one of the great myths of modern politics, but it is still a myth.

You saw all sorts of nonsense about "high popularity ratings" in the waning months of X-42's presidency, along with all kinds of wishful thinking from Democrats about what a third Clinton term would be like, but you never saw any legitimate polls showing how he would have fared against any opponents. This is because one of the best-kept secrets from the 2000 campaign is that Bill Clinton would have lost to either George W. Bush or President George H. W. Bush in a head-to-head matchup in November of 2000.

[Gorjus]

Bill Clinton would have lost...

Al Gore almost won - despite being a terrible candidate who ran a terrible campaign. Even a moderately competent incumbent, with the press lying about the economy as being good (as they did for Gore), would have won if a third term were allowed. You may think your opinion polls and so on show a different story - but remember that those polls are not the same as votes, and further that people knew Clinton couldn't run again.

It's impossible for me to understand how Al Gore almost won ... but he did. Clinton would have done better than Gore - and any better at all would have been enough.