How many Baby Boomer Presidents will there be?

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

So far three presidents have been Baby Boomers, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Will there be any more? How many?

For the record, Baby Boomers are people born between 1946 and 1964.

8 may be a bit high, but think of how many Greatest Generation presidents there were.

[phk]

Maybe 3 more maximum.

[Derek]

Hopefully more than that Gimme generation produced. I'll tell you what all my grandparents' generation produced was a group of people who expect everything handed to them for free by the government. Isn't the window closing for baby boomers to run anyhow? My dad was born in 1964 and I don't think he's even considered to be a baby boomer. In 10 years they might be looked at as too elderly.

[Bo]

I'd say 5. I think Obama's successor (Cuomo, Hillary, Scott Brown, Huntsman, or someone else) will also be a Baby Boomer. And I think the President after that will probably be a baby boomer as well. Afterwards, I think Baby Boomers would be too old to run for President.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Hopefully more than that Gimme generation produced. I'll tell you what all my grandparents' generation produced was a group of people who expect everything handed to them for free by the government. Isn't the window closing for baby boomers to run anyhow? My dad was born in 1964 and I don't think he's even considered to be a baby boomer. In 10 years they might be looked at as too elderly.

The oldest Boomers are 63/64 and the youngest are 45/46. Ten years the younger ones will be in the mid 50's, and that's not too old given how old McCain was. (Or, if you want a winner, Reagan.)

[Del Tachi]

4 or 5...

Obama gets ousted in 2012, and is most likely to be succeeded by a Boomer.

Every president who has defeated an incumbent has gone on to serve two terms.  So,  President X serves from 2013 to 2021. 

In 2020, the youngest Baby Boomers will be 56, the average age of a president at his first inauguration is 55 years old.  So, statistically we should have only one more Boomer president.     

[Bo]

4 or 5...

Obama gets ousted in 2012, and is most likely to be succeeded by a Boomer.

Every president who has defeated an incumbent has gone on to serve two terms.  So,  President X serves from 2013 to 2021. 

In 2020, the youngest Baby Boomers will be 56, the average age of a president at his first inauguration is 55 years old.  So, statistically we should have only one more Boomer president.     

Why do you think Obama will lose reelection?

[Del Tachi]

4 or 5...

Obama gets ousted in 2012, and is most likely to be succeeded by a Boomer.

Every president who has defeated an incumbent has gone on to serve two terms.  So,  President X serves from 2013 to 2021. 

In 2020, the youngest Baby Boomers will be 56, the average age of a president at his first inauguration is 55 years old.  So, statistically we should have only one more Boomer president.     

Why do you think Obama will lose reelection?

1) This "hopey-changey" stuff isn't really working out for him.

2) The statistical probability of Americans reelecting three presidents in a row just seems a bit low. 

[??????????]

Hopefully 0. We can't afford to have anymore, especially liberal ones.

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Hopefully 0. We can't afford to have anymore, especially liberal ones.

Let me know if you get a time machine working.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Hopefully 0. We can't afford to have anymore, especially liberal ones.

There's already been 3.

[??????????]

Hopefully 0. We can't afford to have anymore, especially liberal ones.

There's already been 3.

I mean after Obama.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Hopefully 0. We can't afford to have anymore, especially liberal ones.

There's already been 3.

I mean after Obama.

Too bad all of the Repulican nominee hopefuls except Ron Paul and mabye a few others are Boomers.

[The Mikado]

Hmmm...McCain was the last hope of the "Silent Generation," so it'll just be Boomers and on.  Early Boomers (the ones that actually went through the standard experiences associated with that generation, 1945-1950 births) are starting to get up there in age: Hillary Clinton, for example, will be 66 by the next presidential election.  That said, the absurdly wide expansion of the term "boomer" means that for decades to come, we'll have candidates born in the early sixties that qualify as "boomers," even though they are really closer to being the first couple Gen Xers.

Hopefully, 2004 was the last great Boomer Election, with all the old Boomer issues like f**king Vietnam dredged up.  It was practically a non-issue in 2008 despite McCain's status, and I can't think of a single GOP candidate for 2012 with Vietnam experience.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I go with Strauss and Howe's definition and so do not consider Obama to be a baby boomer. He is our first Gen X president.

[Goldwater]

It depends on you're definition of Baby Boomer because, according to Wikipedia at least, Generation X started in 1961, but that the Baby Boomers ended in 1964, so anyone born between then could go ether way. Anyway, I would say one or two more before they're clearly in Generation X, but who knows.

[Sasquatch]

I always considered Boomers being born in the mid 40's to the late 50's. So Obama isn't Gen X?

[Magic 8-Ball]

I always considered Boomers being born in the mid 40's to the late 50's. So Obama isn't Gen X?

1946-1964 is the range typically given, with those born in the latter half sometimes designated as "Generation Jones."

I think we're done with presidents born in the '40s, but we'll most likely see a president born in the '50s and a couple more in the early-to-mid '60s.

[??????????]

I've always seen and was taught that the official baby boom ended in 1955.

[Magic 8-Ball]

It sounds like you're thinking of Generation Jones, a subgroup of the Boomers that began roughly when that generation's birthrate began to decline.

Ten years is way too short for a generation.

[??????????]

They've changed a lot since I was in school, magic.

[Magic 8-Ball]

Fair enough.

[Penelope]

For the record, Barack Obama is our first Generation X President. Usually Generation X is counted as beginning in 1961 and ending in 1981. Obama was born (narrowly) as a GenXer in August 1961.

[Psychic Octopus]

For the record, Barack Obama is our first Generation X President. Usually Generation X is counted as beginning in 1961 and ending in 1981. Obama was born (narrowly) as a GenXer in August 1961.

That's debatable. The length of generations is ill-defined, and some consider the Baby Boom generation to have ended in 1964.

[??????????]

Do non-Americans fit into these generation labels?