Posted on 06/27/2005 6:42:03 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
Former US President Ronald Wilson Reagan has been nominated the 'Greatest American' ever.
Reagan received 24 precent of the vote beating fellow Republican Abraham Lincoln, who recieved 23.56 percent and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, with 19.7 percent of the vote.
President George Washington was voted the fourth most popular American with 17.7 percent of the nominations. Ben Franklin came in fifth with 14.9 percent of the votes.
George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Elvis Presely, Oprah Winfrey and Franklin D. Roosevelt rounded out the top ten.
The vote was sponsored by America Online and broadcast live by the Discovery Channel. US Citizens were able to cast votes by phone or the Internet. In total, 2,400,000 votes were submitted.
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"Matt Lauer looked like his dog had just died when he announced the results!"
I was just going to ask. LOL! What a weenie.
Typical BBC! Reagan is just 'most popular' (those stupid voters, they couldn't possibly know whats good for them!)
Yes, he was a great general.
Yes!!
I voted for Reagan. Not that I think he was better than Washington, but if Washington had won everyone would have shrugged. Reagan winning makes news.
Agreed. He just let us breathe in peace.
Turns out that he cultivated that impression very assiduously. More recent scholarship has shown that Ike was in fact very engaged, especially (and naturally) on the foreign policy side of things. And very wily, too.
Considering that Elvis and Oprah were higher in the list than Thomas Jefferson, this has to be the dumbest popularity contest ever.
Should have been Washington. Then Jefferson (since he wrote the Dec. of Ind.)Sad that people don't know history.
Agree. Any such contest, even lame ones like this one, should only be about who's the 2nd greatest.
Washington is Number 1 by a mile for anyone the least bit familiar with our history.
Ooohhhhhhhhhh. I can just FEEL the communists from Pyongyang to Cambridge, MA, writhing in agony.
Without Franklin we would all have been British Subjects as well. Without his diplomatic efforts with France and England during the fight for Independence the Colonies would never have survived the war.
"I voted for Reagan. Not that I think he was better than Washington, but if Washington had won everyone would have shrugged. Reagan winning makes news."
Which just goes to illustrate just one of the reasons why these type things are so useless.
As he should have.
Why is that? RWR WAS among the greatest Americans, IMHO...
OTOH, Reagan changed the history of the world in facing-down communism (along with John Paul II and Thatcher).
What-a-joke ping.
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