When a first-term Democratic president struggles, people talk about Jimmy Carter

Former President Jimmy Carter pays tribute to Joan Mondale at her memorial service at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014 in Minneapolis. Joan Mondale, 83, died Feb. 3. At right is then-Vice President Joe Biden who also spoke. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

President Biden, like any second-year occupant in the Oval Office, does not much like the phrase “one-term president.”

As a Democrat, he presumably does not enjoy the comparison some are making between him and Jimmy Carter, the only Democratic president since the 1800s that the voters sent packing after just four years.

But that comparison is, as they say, out there. And as the White House ponders staff moves in the months ahead, it knows it needs to address the dread “Carter model.”