Since American independence 249 years ago and with it the election of the first President of the United States, the change in the office of the US President has been part of the regularly recurring democratic normality of this oldest democracy in modern times. The democratic system of this huge continental country had proven to be extremely stable, despite a bloody civil war between North and South, and as the years passed and the USA’s increasing global power became more and more a role model for the political systems of other countries .