FBI Reopens Clinton E-Mail Probe Less Than Two Weeks Before Vote

Re:FBI Reopens Clinton E-Mail Probe Less Than Two Weeks Befo... by maxerickson on Friday October 28, 2016 @05:27PM (#12820885)

The NPR article linked below links a better one for discussing the history of presidents campaigning:

http://www.npr.org/2016/07/05/484817706/looking-back-at-a-ce...

McCain in 2008 and Gore in 2000 both sort of wanted the sitting president to stay out of the campaign. Bush was pretty unpopular and Clinton had a lot hanging over him (Bush left office with an approval rating around 30%, Clinton around 60%).

Reagan campaigned timidly for Bush I.

So in the last 40 years, it hasn't been very common for the sitting president to come out and campaign hard for their parties candidate. Of course they have generally campaigned for themselves, which has a similar issue of dealing with who pays for things.

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Re:FBI Reopens Clinton E-Mail Probe Less Than Two Weeks Befo... by narrowrail on Friday October 28, 2016 @10:19PM (#12822277)

I know it was a long time ago, so you were probably not considering it, but I thought the Wikiped entry for 1876 pres elections was interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...

"Because it was considered improper for a candidate to pursue the presidency actively, neither Tilden nor Hayes actively stumped as part of the campaign, leaving that job to surrogates."

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