President facts

Interesting fact about U.S. presidents

No president of the United States was an only child.

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When was Ronald Reagan elected?

Ronald Reagan was elected President in 1980

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Who is the highest ranking military official?

The president is the highest ranking official in the government including the military.

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Who can run for president?

Requirements needed to apply for president are must be at least 35 years old, a native born citizen, and be at least a 14 year resident of the united states.

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Who was president

In 1816 James Monroe won the presidency of the United States, winning the electoral college by the wide margin of 183 to 34. He took over the spot vacated by James Madison.

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The thirties were tough times ... building dams helped

The nineteen thirties were a challenging decade with the Great Depression and the stock market crash.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt created a plan called The New Deal a set of initiatives to build infrastructure including dams for the exploding demand for electricity while providing people with jobs.

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U.S. population, and how many people do you have to poll?

When a poll tells us a candidate for president of the United States is favored by ___% of the population, they tell us it has a "margin of error" of +-__% .

For example, August 6, 2008, CBS poll on the president of the United States put John McCain with 39% of the vote and Barrak Obama 45% of the vote, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

The World Fact Book reports U.S. population at over 300 million, 301,139,947 (estimate as of 2007).

How many people do you think you'd have to poll to get within plus or minus 3% or 300,000 of the correct vote?

10 million? 1 million? This particular CBS pre-poll accurately extrapolates the minds of over 300 million people by polling just 906 people, or .00009 % of the population.

We're not so different after all!

Reference: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/06/opinion/polls/main4325670.shtml

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