Virginia Presidential Legacy Poll

Public Policy Polling ^ | September 4, 2009

[GoldStandard]

Ronald Reagan is Virginia voters' favorite President since 1980, while George W. Bush is their least favorite.

[DarthVader]

Obozo is now our least favorite. The worst president ever.

[bilhosty]

That about sums it up for me as well. Reagan is definitely my favorite and the Bushies are the bottom. Not because I disapprove of their domestic political stands. More because they didn't have stances. They were just a loss of opportunity.

[org.whodat]

That about sums it up for me as well. Reagan is definitely my favorite and the Bushies are the bottom. Not because I disapprove of their domestic political stands. More because they didn't have stances. They were just a loss of opportunity.

True, history will not be kind to these to incompetent presidents.

[rasl04]

This should tell the GOP something????

[Huck]

I like Reagan don’t like GWB, but this stuff is silly. The president from as far back as the poll allows is number one, and the most recent president is at the bottom. In other words, they like the one they know the least about, and don’t like the one they know the most about.

[sourcery]

Presidential approval correlates quite strongly with the action of stocks during the latter part and then after a President's term in office. The larger and longer stocks move, the greater the effect. The upward move in stocks during and after Reagan's Presidency is the largest in living memory.

If you want to go down in history as a great President, manage to get elected near a major stock market bottom. If you want to be viewed as a terrible President, just do what Hoover, Bush and Obama did.