Who Was The Best President Since World War II? Who Was The Worst?

Art Vandelay · Jul 3, 2014

My takeaways: Republicans basically know only two things about the executive branch-- Reagan worship and Obama hate-- which is reflected here.

The mythical 90s economy denies Republicans credibility in asserting their Clinton hate here but Carter is an easy target for slightly more rational Republicans who don't think Obama is an America-hating Muslim from Kenya.

The second most popular Republican pick from the last half-century is George H.W. Bush at 3%-- 11x less backing than Reagan! That is an incredible gulf built by extreme uniformity (and extreme repetition). Democrats are pretty evenly split with Clinton at 18%, Kennedy at 15% and a lame duck and sure to improve Obama at 8%.

Truman and Kennedy at 0% for the worst seems impressive but another lesson from this chart is, clearly, either 1) respect for and/or quality of the executive branch or politics in general has greatly declined, 2) history through 1970 is a mystery for most Americans, or 3) both. I think it's both but ignorance is the greatest influence. I mean, 15% say Kennedy is the best President since WWII and 0% say he was the worst? But the numbers are 3-3% on LBJ? Ridiculous.

muckraker10021 · Jul 3, 2014

The Six White Male CEO's who control 90% of the corporate-media-of-mass-deception & distraction , continue to propagandize the mostly willfully ignorant American sheeple with 24/7 PSYOPs presented to them as "NEWS". The "NEWS" can be Totally 100% Lies and such <s>propagandizing</s> lying is totally legal. What the media-of-deception & distraction excels at is propaganda via omission. If you just announce a sensational "headline" without factual context, then you are deliberately lying to the public. The recent poll about Obama illustrates this point. Once you examine the demographic sample of who was "polled", then the sensational "headline" quickly turns into BULLSHIT :smh:

If you conduct a poll made up of
<a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/polling/us/us07022014_demos_U73jabn.pdf" target="_blank">73 percent whites</a>,
<a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/polling/us/us07022014_crosstabs_U73jabn.pdf" target="_blank">61 percent Midwesterners and Southerners</a>,
66 percent non-college grads,
69 percent non-Democrats
and 56 percent land-line telephone users,
you can get <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/poll-obama-worst-president-since-wwii-108507.html" target="_blank">a Politico headline</a> proclaiming Obama the worst president since World War II.

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In AmeriKKKa's short, less than 250 year history, a nation built on slavery & genocide, a nation that invented the 'one drop rule' we in 2014 are in denial when it comes to racial identity. Amazingly most Americans, except Black Americans, Do Not see President Barack Obama as Black.

READ: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/04/14/is-barack-obama-black/

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For most white Americans, racism is great for them. Who wants to give up the benefits of white skin privilege???

thoughtone · Jul 3, 2014

1. Before the election, Karl Rove predicted Mitt Romney would win 279 electoral votes.

2. Rove gets two mentions because after the election, he continued to predict a Romney victory—even as everyone else concluded Romney had lost. Which he had.

3. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, John McCain's top economic adviser, thought turnout would win it for Romney.

4. House Speaker John Boehner said Romney would win Ohio.

5. Steve Forbes said the polls were wrong and that Romney would win.

6. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said Romney would carry Virginia.

7. Dick Morris said Romney would win 325 electoral votes.

8. Dean Chambers, inventor of the unskewed polls nonsense, said Romney would take 311 electoral votes.

9. Michael Barone predicted a Romney landslide.

10. George Will said Romney would win big.

11. John Bolton said he was "very confident" Romney would win.

12. Wayne Allen Root predicted a Romney landslide.

13. Stu Rothenberg said the race was too close to call, even though it was clear from all available data that President Obama had a significant advantage.

14. Pat Toomey said Romney would win Pennsylvania.

15. Peggy Noonan said "vibrations" told her Romney was about to win.

16. Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge said Romney would carry Pennsylvania.

17. Charles Krauthammer said Romney would win a close victory.

18. Suffolk stopped polling in Virginia and Florida because they decided Romney had locked those states up.

19. The head of Mason-Dixon polling said Mitt Romney had nailed down Florida.

20. Fred Barnes confidently explained to everyone why Romney will win.

21. Joe Scarborough mocked Nate Silver for relying on data and said he would rather be in Mitt Romney's shoes than President Obama's.

22. Eric Cantor declared Romney would win Virginia.

23. Romney's own campaign predicted he would win 300 electoral votes.

24. Glenn Beck predicted a Romney landslide.

25. Jeb Bush said Florida would go Romney's way.

26. Ohio Gov. John Kasich not only said Romney would win Ohio, but that he'd seen internal polls showing Romney ahead.

27. David Brooks mocked analysis like Nate Silver's.

28. Dylan Byers treated Nate Silver's partisan opponents with equal credibility as Silver himself.

29. Bill Kristol predicted a Romney victory.

30. Ari Fleischer said Romney would win comfortably.

31. James Pethokoukis of American Enterprise Institute predicted a Romney win.

32. Newt Gingrich guaranteed Romney would win by at least six points.

33. Dave Weigel predicted a Romney victory.

34. Jay Cost of The Weekly Standard claimed Romney would win.

The only poll that counts!

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...and if Barack Obama were on the ballot against any of the current republican presidential wishfulls in 2016, he would win again!

thoughtone · Jul 7, 2014

source: Think Progress

Poll: Americans Still Blame Bush For Today’s Iraq Crisis

President Bush addresses the nation to announce the start of the Iraq War in 2003

In a recently released poll, Americans by an almost 2 to 1 margin blame the current turmoil in Iraq more on former president George W. Bush than the White House’s current occupant, though giving Obama low marks for his handling of the crisis.

In the survey, conducted between June 24 -30, Quinnipiac University contacted 1,446 registered voters and asked them point blank: “Who do you blame more for the situation in Iraq, President Obama or former President George W. Bush?” Of those polled, 51 percent said the blame rested with the 43rd president, while only 27 percent said Obama is more at fault. In military households, a plurality — 44 percent — still said that Bush is more at fault. Voters also by a sizable margin — 58 to 37 percent — believe that going to war with Iraq in 2003 in the first place was a bad idea.

The result of these questions, however, were highly partisan in nature. On the first question, 54 percent of Republicans inquired preferred to say Obama’s policies are behind the current situation; only five percent of Democrats said the same. And on launching the war in the first place, 56 percent of GOP members surveyed still approve of the war, while 80 percent of Democrats remain opposed.

Despite protestations from conservatives, Americans also back Obama’s decision to withdraw all troops from Iraq at the end of 2011. 58 percent of respondents agree that pulling troops was the right thing, compared to 37 percent who think it was a mistake. Again, the survey breaks down along partisan lines, with a full 90 percent of Democrats supporting the decision, compared to 62 percent of Republicans who believe it was a mistake. Compared to a similar question in late 2011, Quinnipiac found that slightly fewer Americans support the pull out, showing a 16 point drop over the years.

A slight plurality also disagree with the notion that the U.S. should carry out airstrikes in Iraq, an option that remains on the table as the Obama administration determines how best to aid Iraq in pushing back militants allied with the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). When asked if the U.S. should use piloted aircraft, remotely piloted aircraft or cruise missiles, or both, just two percent advocated strikes using just fighter jets, while 20 percent were in favor of solely using drone strikes and missile launches. A full 39 percent said that neither option should be used, slightly edging out the 30 percent who called for both.

The survey also came to a similar conclusion as a previous Public Policy Polling (PPP) poll on the prospect of placing troops on the ground in Iraq. In PPP’s findings, 74 percent of Americans were opposed to the idea of sending in ground troops to help fight against ISIS. Several weeks later, Quinnipiac’s survey says that 63 percent of voters — including 56 percent of Republicans — are against the idea of ground combat troops to help defeat the Islamic militants.

And while Republican hawks like Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John McCain (R-AZ) continue to draw comparisons between the Iraq withdrawal and the pending pullout of combat troops in Afghanistan, Americans want Obama to stay the course on ending the longest war in American history. Forty-six percent of Americans, the survey finds, think that based on what they’ve heard the troop withdrawal rate from Afghanistan is “about right.”

While some of these numbers will be comforting for the White House, the poll isn’t all good news. When asked if they approve or disapprove of the way that Obama is handling the current Iraq crisis, a full 55 percent thought the effort was being mismanaged. Likewise, voters believe that Obama’s foreign policy-making skills are either on par or worse than those of Bush: 25 percent believe the former, while 39 percent believe the latter.

Meanwhile in Iraq, while the Iraqi military has made some gains against ISIS, the political crisis that has been running parralel to the takeover of several cities and towns continues. Iraq’s parliament, which was meant to form a new government after its most recent elections last week, has opted instead to adjourn until August. In the meantime, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s caretaker government is still in place, despite increasing calls for the Shiite leader to step down from his role to help facilitate a reconciliation with Iraq’s Sunni population. (HT: TPM)

Art Vandelay · Jul 9, 2014

Other lessons gleaned from looking at the data-- just looking at the "best" question tells a lot...

Best President, total population vote:

Ronald Reagan 35
Bill Clinton 18
John Kennedy 15
Barack Obama 8
Dwight Eisenhower 5
Harry Truman 4
Lyndon Johnson 3
George Bush Senior 3
Jimmy Carter 2
Richard Nixon 1
Gerald Ford 1
George W. Bush 1

Though Obama receives more vitriol, the presidents least associated with great accomplishment were Nixon, Ford and Bush.

Best President, Democratic vote:

Bill Clinton 34
John Kennedy 18
Barack Obama 18
Lyndon Johnson 6
Ronald Reagan 6
Harry Truman 4
Jimmy Carter 4
Dwight Eisenhower 2
Gerald Ford 1
George Bush Senior 1
Richard Nixon -
George W. Bush -

The historical ignorance and propaganda bought is astounding. Lyndon Johnson tied for fourth place with Ronald Reagan among Democrats? Reagan over Truman? :smh:

We need a better liberal arts education system in this country. People are totally ignorant of just a half century ago.

Best President, Republican vote:

Ronald Reagan 66
John Kennedy 6
George Bush Senior 6
Barack Obama 4
Harry Truman 4
Dwight Eisenhower 4
Bill Clinton 3
Richard Nixon 2
Gerald Ford 1
George W. Bush 1
Lyndon Johnson -
Jimmy Carter -

The cult of Reagan is sickening. He's one-third away from Saddam Hussein voting results in polling among Republicans.

The historical Republican bench is extremely weak. After Reagan, 60% of their top five are Democrats! They go from Bush to Eisenhower... to Nixon, Ford and Bush. With Clinton outranking all three and Johnson and Carter proving they were good presidents by registering zero Republican support.

The historical amnesia is seen on this side as well, perhaps more powerfully with the single-minded allegiance to Reagan. George H.W. Bush outranking Eisenhower is clearly an ignorance issue.

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