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| Likely Voters: Carter Was a Better President than Obama |
| 2012-07-04 |
| According to a Newsweek/Daily Beast poll of likely voters, Barack Obama now rates behind Jimmy Carter in the pantheon of great presidents. The poll asked likely voters to list the two best and the two worst presidents the history of the United States. Here are the tallies, based on net results: Voters’ list of the 10 best presidents: 1. Abraham Lincoln, +27 points (28 percent place in top-2, 1 percent place in bottom-2) 2. Ronald Reagan, +25 points (31 percent place in top-2, 6 percent place in bottom-2) 3. Franklin D. Roosevelt, +22 points (23 percent place in top-2, 1 percent place in bottom-2) 4. John F. Kennedy, +19 points (19 percent place in top-2, 0 percent place in bottom-2) 5. (tie) George Washington, +15 points (16 percent place in top-2, 1 percent place in bottom-2) 5. (tie) Bill Clinton, +15 points (28 percent place in top-2, 13 percent place in bottom-2) 7. Thomas Jefferson, +6 points (6 percent place in top-2, 0 percent place in bottom-2) 8. (tie) Teddy Roosevelt, +5 points (5 percent place in top-2, 0 percent place in bottom-2) 8. (tie) Harry S. Truman, +5 points (5 percent place in top-2, 0 percent place in bottom-2) 10. Dwight D. Eisenhower, +4 points (5 percent place in top-2, 1 percent place in bottom-2) |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #9 Carter Was a Better President than Obama. I am convinced history will treat Carter as such. Although I suspect it [history] is being re-written even now. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-07-04 17:52 |
| #8 Let's hope the likely voters still feel Obama is worse than Carter in the fall. Doesn't look like Champ will be on Mount Rushmore. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-07-04 17:05 |
| #7 Badanov, believe it or not, W is dead last as the worst president in history. He sure as heck wasn't the best, but he wasn't the worst either. Salt the results of this poll accordingly. |
| Posted by: gorb 2012-07-04 13:42 |
| #6 Don't forget folks - this was a NEWSWEEK poll of likely voters. I'm betting it was HEAVILY biased in favor of Dems which is why it's no surprise that Clinton and FDR are in the top 10, or that W is dead last, but it is an absolute JAW dropper that Reagan is #2 and that Obama ranks behind NIXON. Even misty-eyed Dems can't rehabilitate Carter... Orion |
| Posted by: Orion 2012-07-04 12:49 |
| #5 I predict Kennedy will slide once people who remember his assassination are dead. Bill Clinton and George Washington a tie? Comparing apples to road-apples. I would bid that John Adams should be on the list. He kept us out of a war with Britain during the time of the French Revolution that a lot of the Colonies were agitating for. Good to see Truman get a nod. Funny how so many Democrats from today's point of view would have been Republicans. FDR was hugely against public sector unions (like a 4-term Nixon in terms of his policies) and Kennedy and Truman were Cold-War hawks, IMO. |
| Posted by: Mizzou Mafia 2012-07-04 12:04 |
| #4 Badanov, believe it or not, W is dead last as the worst president in history. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2012-07-04 12:01 |
| #3 FDR at 3 oh dear. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-07-04 11:52 |
| #2 Where's Dubya? |
| Posted by: badanov 2012-07-04 11:35 |
| #1 Low praise, indeed... |
| Posted by: Raj 2012-07-04 10:34 |