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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh my god, do you people ever work?

When the government is off, federal contractors don't get paid. I have to use up my leave or take an unpaid day off whenever the government decides to give its worker random extra days off. There was just one on 12/24, too.[/quote]

How often does a President pass?  [/quote]

Ford in 2006 and George HW Bush in 2018. So averaging once every 8-10 years. Inauguration is on MLK Day this year, so not an extra day. It evens out. [/quote]

Surely, the average time between presidential deaths is the same as the average presidential tenure, so a number less than 8 years.  [/quote]

[b]In recent history, Carter and George HW Bush both lived a really, really long time, which threw things off[/b]. Between Clinton (recently hospitalized for an infection and had quad bypass surgery) and Trump (McDonalds) and Biden (showing his age). I’d expect more than one death in the next 8 years.

But, Obama, Clinton, Trump, Reagan, and Bush 1 were all two term presidents since Carter (5 8 year terms if Trump is still with us in 2028) vs just Bush 2 and Biden who were not (so 2 4 year terms). So the average term length since 1980 is just under 7 years (my back of the napkin math says 6.86 years).  So one every 8 years isn’t that far off.

With such a small data set, it just takes a couple people living into their 90s to throw the numbers off. [/quote]

Actually every president from Gerald Ford on has (so far) lived beyond the age of 90 so it’s not just a couple of outliers.[/quote]

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