is it possible for a regular person to become president?

Question

and who was the last?

Answer 1

It's possible, ...however improbable. The kind of money it takes to run a national campaign anymore is astronomical. Take Hilary Rodham Clinton, for example. The last time I heard her "exploratory commission" had raised nearly $22million dollars for her to campaign with. For an average Joe like you and me that's a huge mountain to overcome. It's not impossible; Bill Clinton pulled it off against George H.W. Bush. But you really can't call Bill Clinton an "average Joe", either. He was a Governor and a businessman before running for President so even he had a better than average chance of pulling it off.

Answer 2

Yes, but would you really want to have to be the person who has to clean up what the current administration has/is doing right now?
Bush is a less than average person and has been the sitting president since 2001. Proof that a regular person could become president, and would do an awesome job. Could not do as badly as Bush for sure.
I'd have to say the peanut farmer, Jimmy Carter was the last regular person to be president. He did not do well, in my opinion. But he was a regular person. Too naive for the presidency. He has made some very positive improvements since returning to the civilian life, namely Habitat for Humanity.

Answer 3

Although it is possible, it is highly improbable. Why would any body especially a regular person want to become president. Even if they were to win, they wouldn't be regular after about 6 weeks in DC.

Answer 4

I doubt it - because if you research the geneology of all presidents 33 of the 42 presidents [up] to Clinton are related to Charlemagne and 19 are related to England's Edward III, both of whom are of this bloodline. A spokesman for Burkes Peerage, the bible of royal and aristocratic genealogy based in London, has said that every presidential election since and including George Washington in 1789 has been won by the candidate with the most royal genes. Now we can see how and why. United States presidents are not chosen by ballot, they are chosen by blood!

Answer 5

Technically certain. very nearly, no. Obama became an accepted operating classification man or woman for a at the same time as, although. He did properly out of regulation college, yet that became only many years earlier he entered politics. very nearly all of his funds got here from his books, which failed to extremely start up doing properly till 2004 at the same time as it appeared like he became planning to run. So it really is conceivable to make adequate funds off of the conception of operating to be able to arise with the money for to run. a lot of human beings do this devoid of even extremely heavily attempting to win (like Herman Cain, case in factor, who went on a e book excursion in the time of his campaign). (His first e book did distinctly properly on the ability of being the first black editor of the Harvard regulation evaluation again in 1995, in spite of the indisputable fact that it did not convey contained in the extreme funds till he began operating for President.)

Answer 6

Clarence Darrow, a famed American attorney, once said:

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it."

Answer 7

Bill Clinton

Answer 8

Why not? Even dopes and cocaine sniffers can become one.

It is about how much you can fool the nation about what you and your cohort can do without really trying!

So go on, plan for the one in 10 years time.

Answer 9

Jimmy Carter, and before that, Abraham Lincoln.

Answer 10

Yes, a U.S, natural-born citizen. And Bush, oil baron and former alcoholic and drug addict, was the last.