Presidents' Day Poll

[Homestarlover85]

G Dubya

[the_rev]

The whiskey Ring!

Also any other president from the guilded age.

[argent_paladin]

Here's an interesting scholarly consensus of the presidents, from great to failure:
Great
1 George Washington 4.92 5 0.27
2 Abraham Lincoln 4.87 5 0.60
3 Franklin Roosevelt 4.67 5 0.75

Near Great
4 Thomas Jefferson 4.25 4 0.71
5 Theodore Roosevelt 4.22 4 0.71
6 Andrew Jackson 3.99 4 0.79
7 Harry Truman 3.95 4 0.75
8 Ronald Reagan 3.81 4 1.08
9 Dwight Eisenhower 3.71 4 0.60
10 James Polk 3.70 4 0.80 11
Woodrow Wilson 3.68 4 1.09

Above Average
12 Grover Cleveland 3.36 3 0.63
13 John Adams 3.36 3 0.80
14 William McKinley 3.33 3 0.62
15 James Madison 3.29 3 0.71
16 James Monroe 3.27 3 0.60
17 Lyndon Johnson 3.21 3.5 1.04
18 John Kennedy 3.17 3 0.73

Average 19 William Taft 3.00 3 0.66
20 John Quincy Adams 2.93 3 0.76
21 George Bush 2.92 3 0.68
22 Rutherford Hayes 2.79 3 0.55
23 Martin Van Buren 2.77 3 0.61
24 William Clinton 2.77 3 1.11
25 Calvin Coolidge 2.71 3 0.97
26 Chester Arthur 2.71 3 0.56

Below Average
27 Benjamin Harrison 2.62 3 0.54
28 Gerald Ford 2.59 3 0.61
29 Herbert Hoover 2.53 3 0.87
30 Jimmy Carter 2.47 2 0.75
31 Zachary Taylor 2.40 2 0.68
32 Ulysses Grant 2.28 2 0.89
33 Richard Nixon 2.22 2 1.07
34 John Tyler 2.03 2 0.72
35 Millard Fillmore 1.91 2 0.74

Failure
36 Andrew Johnson 1.65 1 0.81
37T Franklin Pierce 1.58 1 0.68
37T Warren Harding 1.58 1 0.77
39 James Buchanan 1.33 1 0.6

[zwergel88]

It's a toss-up between Reagan, Nixon and Bush2, but I think George W is definatly my least favorite so I picked him.

[journeyman]

[quote name='argent_paladin' date='Feb 21 2005, 07:53 PM'] Here's an interesting scholarly consensus of the presidents, from great to failure:
[/quote]
what was the source of the listing? the criteria for ranking?

for Nixon to rank below Carter surprises me - Nixon's domestic record was uneven, but his foreign policy (even the depressing end to Vietnam) should have gotten him at least to average

It can't be but so wierd, since my vote came in dead last

[the_rev]

In my Ch. History folder I have the Schlesinger poll it rated all forty-some preseidents.

Once I find it, I will post the worst presidents in their opinion.