IN SEARCH OF A LEGACY Poll: Clinton greater than Reagan, Washington

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IN SEARCH OF A LEGACY Poll: Clinton greater than Reagan, Washington Gallup survey also ranks Bill ahead of Jefferson, tied with Bush

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: May 27, 2003 3:54 a.m. Eastern

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Bill Clinton tops Ronald Reagan, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson in a new survey of America's greatest presidents, and ranks evenly with George W. Bush.

Bill Clinton

A Gallup poll released this month asked the question: "Who do you regard as the greatest United States president?"

While Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy finished first and second with 15 and 13 percent of the votes respectively, Clinton and President Bush tied for third at 11 percent.

Reagan finished fifth with ten percent of responses, followed by Franklin Roosevelt with nine percent and George Washington with seven.

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Harry Truman, Jimmy Carter, Teddy Roosevelt, George H.W. Bush, and Thomas Jefferson all collected less than five percent.

Clinton is especially popular among the MTV generation, with nearly 3 in 10 respondents in the 18- to 29-year-old age group mentioning him. His 29 percent tally of younger Americans is about triple the competition from Lincoln and the current president, both of whom received ten percent support from that group.

Not surprisingly, one's political affiliation had a great impact on selections for this poll. For instance, among Republicans, Clinton received only two percent backing, compared to 23 for George W. Bush, 20 for Lincoln, and 18 for Reagan.

Those identifying themselves as Democrats gave Kennedy 25 percent and Clinton 21 percent, compared to just three percent for Both Reagan and Bush the younger.

Just two years ago when the same question was asked, Reagan was the overall winner of the greatest president question, gathering 18 percent of responses – twice as much as Clinton.

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[cgk]

Nice lip lesion.

[Grampa Dave]

(Washington, D.C.) -- In a little reported provision of the Patriot Act of 2003, former president Bill Clinton has been exiled to the island of Elba along with his wife, members of his cabinet, and George Stephanopoulos.

"Frankly, Clinton was just becoming a pain in the ass," said Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a co-sponsor of the legislation. "Jesus, we're all sick and tired of hearing about the 'most ethical administration in US history.' I mean, you try to explain to your 90-year old grandmother what "hummer" means."

According to the provisions of the bill, the Clinton entourage will not be allowed any contact with the outside world except for weekly parachute drops of Moonpies, Mountain Dew, frozen White Castle hamburgers, and back issues of The Nation and Swank magazines.

A spokesman for the former president said that Mr. Clinton is "looking forward to this exciting new opportunity to serve the American people." George Stephanopoulos told this reporter that he is currently re-reading The Lord of the Flies.

William Grim, for Iconclast

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The Media can generate the idea of Camelot in less than 2 years!

[nosofar]

How does Kennedy even get rated in these polls??? He was only in office for two years. That is NOT enough time to create a legacy or accomplish anything legislatively.

Cuban Missile Crisis. Bay of Pigs. Then there's the sympathy factor for getting assassinated.

[Liz]

LOL. Great reading of the "exile" and love the pic of the two grifters as they really are.

Clinton is especially popular among the MTV generation....explains his showing in the screwed-up poll.

MTV is watched only by oversexed morons who don't know a thing about politics; these are the Clintons kind of people.

[lilylangtree]

The unnamed source is still trying to obtain the Nobel prize for Clintoon. Some source behind the scenes tried 6 times to get that Nobel prize for Clintoon before the cartoon character left office, but to no avail. Now, the source is trying again.

[CMClay]

"How does Kennedy even get rated in these polls??? He was only in office for two years. That is NOT enough time to create a legacy or accomplish anything legislatively."

Jesus' public life was only 3 years. It's the ideas that lived on.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww I just noticed when I went back to post 18 tp look, Herpes??? Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

[TommyDale]

One only needs to ask where they took this poll -- Harlem?

[HHFi]

Chances are that the people responding to this poll could only come up with 3 or 4 names off the top of their heads. Of course, if they are 18 to 24 years old, they would only have been politically aware of two presidents, Clinton and Bush...

Exactly. That's the same reason why movie polls often show more recent junk like "Dirty Dancing" or "Phantom Menace" ranked higher than "Casablanca" and "Citizen Kane." All that polls like this show is the woeful ignorance of history of most modern Americans. Clinton is the "Dirty Dancing" of presidents. Come to think of it, he was the "Phantom Menace," too.

[exnavy]

LOL

[Let's Roll]

"... I doubt if the basis of the poll was anything other than Gallup's usual Dem-heavy base."

Clinton added to Lincoln and Kennedy also tells me that almost the entire base used by Gallup was also black.

Only in your dreams, Willie.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Even Harlem folks wised up some. I think the poll was taken at the DNC headquarters.