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Most say Obama best President of our lifetime

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Survey Report Pew Research

When asked which president has done the best job in their lifetimes, more Americans name Barack Obama than any other president. More than four-in-ten (44%) say Obama is the best or second best president of their lifetimes, compared with about a third who mention Bill Clinton (33%) or Ronald Reagan (32%).
 
To be fair Obama has the advantage of being immediately followed by the worst president in history. So how good he was is most likely inflated by the comparison.
 
Sand Castle said:
Survey Report Pew Research

When asked which president has done the best job in their lifetimes, more Americans name Barack Obama than any other president. More than four-in-ten (44%) say Obama is the best or second best president of their lifetimes, compared with about a third who mention Bill Clinton (33%) or Ronald Reagan (32%).
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Where is the link to the poll?

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Sand Castle said:
Survey Report Pew Research

When asked which president has done the best job in their lifetimes, more Americans name Barack Obama than any other president. More than four-in-ten (44%) say Obama is the best or second best president of their lifetimes, compared with about a third who mention Bill Clinton (33%) or Ronald Reagan (32%).
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link?!
 
Only the idiot Leftists believe that. :lamo
 
apdst said:
Only the idiot Leftists believe that. :lamo
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Awwww. Don't cry bro.

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So, this is out of the 109% of those surveyed?

Unless it's a poll of just Boomers, I don't see much use in comparing presidents. Millennials were either not born or have no memory of Reagan or Clinton.
 
Those same idiots who think Obama was America's best President probably also think he deserved that Nobel Peace Prize. Seriously, grading on a curve because Obama is black is insulting and bigoted.
 
It is always telling when people call anyone who votes differently than them as idiots. It says more about them than anything.


apdst said:
Only the idiot Leftists believe that. :lamo
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Acadia said:
Those same idiots who think Obama was America's best President probably also think he deserved that Nobel Peace Prize. Seriously, grading on a curve because Obama is black is insulting and bigoted.
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Acadia said:
Those same idiots who think Obama was America's best President probably also think he deserved that Nobel Peace Prize. Seriously, grading on a curve because Obama is black is insulting and bigoted.
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Aww. Another broken heart.

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Taylor said:
So, this is out of the 109% of those surveyed?

Unless it's a poll of just Boomers, I don't see much use in comparing presidents. Millennials were either not born or have no memory of Reagan or Clinton.
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Well I'm old enough to remember Clinton, and yeah, Obama's a lot better than he was. And he's sure as hell better than the guy who started the American culture wars and the process of shifting the economic burden to middle class.
 
Sand Castle said:
Survey Report Pew Research

When asked which president has done the best job in their lifetimes, more Americans name Barack Obama than any other president. More than four-in-ten (44%) say Obama is the best or second best president of their lifetimes, compared with about a third who mention Bill Clinton (33%) or Ronald Reagan (32%).
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Who's best and worst is all in the eye of the beholder.

2014 Quinnipiac poll
A Quinnipiac University poll taken June 24–30, 2014, asked 1,446 registered voters in the United States who they thought were the best and worst Presidents since World War II.[41]

Best President since World War II:

Ronald Reagan (35%)
Bill Clinton (18%)
John F. Kennedy (15%)
Barack Obama (8%)
Dwight Eisenhower (5%)
Harry S. Truman (4%)
Lyndon B. Johnson (tie) (3%)
George H. W. Bush (tie) (3%)
Jimmy Carter (2%)
Richard Nixon (tie) (1%)
Gerald Ford (tie) (1%)
George W. Bush (tie) (1%)

Worst President since World War II:

Barack Obama (33%)
George W. Bush (28%)
Richard Nixon (13%)
Jimmy Carter (8%)
Lyndon B. Johnson (tie) (3%)
Ronald Reagan (tie) (3%)
Bill Clinton (tie) (3%)
Gerald Ford (tie) (2%)
George H. W. Bush (tie) (2%)
Dwight Eisenhower (1%)
Harry S. Truman (tie) (<1%)
John F. Kennedy (tie) (<1%)
2017 Quinnipiac poll
Four years later, a Quinnipiac University poll taken January 20–25, 2017, asked 1,190 voters in the United States who they thought were the best and worst Presidents since World War II.[42]

Best President since World War II:

Ronald Reagan (30%)
Barack Obama (29%)
John F. Kennedy (12%)
Bill Clinton (9%)
Dwight Eisenhower (tie) (3%)
George W. Bush (tie) (3%)
Harry Truman (tie) (2%)
Lyndon B. Johnson (tie) (2%)
Jimmy Carter (tie) (2%)
George H.W. Bush (tie) (2%)
Richard Nixon (tie) (<1%)
Gerald R. Ford (tie) (<1%)

Worst President since World War II:

Richard Nixon (24%)
Barack Obama (23%)
George W. Bush (22%)
Jimmy Carter (10%)
Ronald Reagan (5%)
Bill Clinton (4%)
Lyndon B. Johnson (3%)
George H.W. Bush (2%)
Gerald R. Ford (1%)
Harry S. Truman (tie) (<1%)
Dwight Eisenhower (tie) (<1%)
John F. Kennedy (tie) (<1%)
2017 Morning Consult poll
Including for the first time President Donald Trump, a Morning Consult poll taken February 9–10, 2017, asked 1,791 registered voters in the United States, who they thought were the best and worst Presidents since World War II.[43][44]

Best President since World War II:

Ronald Reagan (26%)
Barack Obama (20%)
John F. Kennedy (17%)
Bill Clinton (9%)
Donald Trump (6%)
George W. Bush (tie) (2%)
Harry Truman (tie) (2%)
Jimmy Carter (tie) (2%)
George H.W. Bush (tie) (2%)
Richard Nixon (tie) (1%)
Lyndon B. Johnson (tie) (1%)
Gerald R. Ford (<1%)

Worst President since World War II:

Donald Trump (26%)
Barack Obama (25%)
Richard Nixon (13%)
George W. Bush (7%)
Bill Clinton (6%)
Jimmy Carter (5%)
George H.W. Bush (3%)
Lyndon B. Johnson (2%)
Ronald Reagan (tie) (1%)
Gerald R. Ford (tie) (1%)
Harry S. Truman (tie) (1%)
John F. Kennedy (<1%)
2018 Quinnipiac poll
A Quinnipiac University poll taken March 3–5, 2018, asked 1,122 voters in the United States who they thought were the best and worst Presidents since World War II.[45]

Best President since World War II:

Ronald Reagan (28%)
Barack Obama (24%)
John F. Kennedy (tie) (10%)
Bill Clinton (tie) (10%)
Donald Trump (7%)
Dwight Eisenhower (4%)
Harry Truman (tie) (3%)
Jimmy Carter (tie) (3%)
Lyndon B. Johnson (2%)
George H.W. Bush (tie) (1%)
Richard Nixon (tie) (1%)
George W. Bush (tie) (1%)
Gerald R. Ford (<1%)

Worst President since World War II:

Donald Trump (41%)
Barack Obama (21%)
Richard Nixon (10%)
Jimmy Carter (8%)
George W. Bush (6%)
Bill Clinton (4%)
Lyndon B. Johnson (tie) (2%)
Ronald Reagan (tie) (2%)
Gerald R. Ford (1%)
Harry S. Truman (tie) (<1%)
Dwight Eisenhower (tie) (<1%)
John F. Kennedy (tie) (<1%)
George H.W. Bush (tie) (<1%)

Historical rankings of presidents of the United States - Wikipedia

Interesting to note in 2014 Obama was the 4th best and the worst. In 2017 Obama moved up to second best and at the same time, second worst behind Nixon. Another 2017 poll had Obama as the second best, behind Reagan and the second worst, behind Trump. 2018 continued with Obama behind Reagan for the best and second worst, just behind Trump.
 
azgreg said:
To be fair Obama has the advantage of being immediately followed by the worst president in history. So how good he was is most likely inflated by the comparison.
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Not only that, but he was preceded by someone with a Saturn return in election year and 9-11 and economic crisis.

Clinton's job was a blow job and he failed to hand over to Al Gore even though he had a surplus and booming economy.
 
Exquisitor said:
Not only that, but he was preceded by someone with a Saturn return in election year and 9-11 and economic crisis.

Clinton's job was a blow job and he failed to hand over to Al Gore even though he had a surplus and booming economy.
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Trumps job was paying off prostitutes.
 
Perotista said:
Interesting to note in 2014 Obama was the 4th best and the worst. In 2017 Obama moved up to second best and at the same time, second worst behind Nixon. Another 2017 poll had Obama as the second best, behind Reagan and the second worst, behind Trump. 2018 continued with Obama behind Reagan for the best and second worst, just behind Trump.
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I lived under Reagan. No way was he the best at anything.
 
Taylor said:
So, this is out of the 109% of those surveyed?

Unless it's a poll of just Boomers, I don't see much use in comparing presidents. Millennials were either not born or have no memory of Reagan or Clinton.
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So it's impossible to have an informed opinion of a president unless you were alive and politically aware during his presidency?
 
Crosscheck said:
It is always telling when people call anyone who votes differently than them as idiots. It says more about them than anything.
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Anyone who votes to keep Maxine Waters in office is an idiot.
 
Sand Castle said:
Survey Report Pew Research

When asked which president has done the best job in their lifetimes, more Americans name Barack Obama than any other president. More than four-in-ten (44%) say Obama is the best or second best president of their lifetimes, compared with about a third who mention Bill Clinton (33%) or Ronald Reagan (32%).
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Crazy as it sounds today, a significant part of his top staff weren't indicted, didn't have anything to plead guilty to, and didn't ended up in jail.


LOL, Trump seeing a black man considered a better POTUS than him is going to eat at him all night long.

Bet he's throws a major tantrum when he gets the news...if anyone in the WH has the balls to tell him. I wonder if FOX will keep it quite as well?
 
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azgreg said:
To be fair Obama has the advantage of being immediately followed by the worst president in history. So how good he was is most likely inflated by the comparison.
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To be fair he was bracketed by two extremely poor presidents. Bush 43 was much superior to 45 , no matter how bad he was.
 
Rogue Valley said:
I lived under Reagan. No way was he the best at anything.
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He was really good at exciting the base with the Southern Strategy. "Young bucks and Welfare Queens" wink wink nudge nudge ... for the win!

And he, like Trump, was awesome at picking criminals and scumbags to help him run things.

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LOL, as we've discovered, people like this are the best conservatives can produce. Think about what this says about run of the mill everyday conservatives.
 
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Rogue Valley said:
I lived under Reagan. No way was he the best at anything.
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LOL, as I said, it is all in the eye of the beholder. Republicans tend to believe Republican presidents are the best, Democratic presidents the worst and vice versa. Partisan politics at work.

I'm an ancient one here who would rank the best president's I have personally experienced as 1 Eisenhower 2.JFK, 3 Reagan, 4 Bill Clinton. Although at times I put Bill 3rd and Ronnie 4th. The worst although I don't or didn't consider any of them bad presidents, Carter, Ford, Obama, G.W. Bush. Trump is still president, so I don't include him. In fact historians states they can't get a fairly good accurate picture or rate a president until at least 20 years after he has left office. This gives them time to gauge the long term effects of their policies on this country. It also give the partisan rancor time to die down.

Outside of historian rankings, pretty much everyone else base their perspective on the R and or the D next to a president's name. I was born right after WWII and too young to personally remember anything about Truman, so I didn't include him either.
 
kitsune said:
So it's impossible to have an informed opinion of a president unless you were alive and politically aware during his presidency?
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No, but it's irrelevant to the question asked: Who was the best President in your lifetime?
 
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