Posted on 07/04/2007 9:07:20 AM PDT by finnman69
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Somewhat Favorable
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Washington, George
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94%
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2%
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69%
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25%
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2%
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0%
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4%
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Lincoln, Abraham
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92%
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4%
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66%
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26%
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3%
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1%
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4%
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Jefferson, Thomas
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89%
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4%
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51%
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38%
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4%
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0%
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7%
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Roosevelt, Teddy
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84%
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8%
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44%
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40%
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5%
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3%
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8%
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.
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81%
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12%
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40%
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41%
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8%
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4%
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7%
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Kennedy, John F.
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80%
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13%
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43%
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37%
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11%
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2%
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6%
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Adams, John
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74%
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9%
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30%
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44%
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8%
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1%
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16%
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Madison, James
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73%
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8%
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30%
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43%
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6%
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2%
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19%
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Reagan, Ronald
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72%
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22%
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41%
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31%
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14%
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8%
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5%
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Eisenhower, Dwight
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72%
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15%
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32%
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40%
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12%
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3%
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13%
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Truman, Harry S.
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70%
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14%
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32%
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38%
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11%
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3%
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16%
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Jackson, Andrew
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69%
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14%
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20%
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49%
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12%
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2%
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16%
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Ford, Gerald
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62%
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26%
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16%
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46%
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22%
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4%
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11%
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Adams, John Quincy
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59%
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7%
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27%
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32%
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5%
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2%
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34%
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Grant, Ulysses S.
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58%
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24%
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22%
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36%
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16%
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8%
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18%
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Carter, Jimmy
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57%
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34%
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20%
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37%
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12%
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22%
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8%
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Taft, William
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57%
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15%
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27%
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30%
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12%
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3%
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28%
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Bush, George H.W.
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57%
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41%
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22%
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35%
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23%
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18%
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2%
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Wilson, Woodrow
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56%
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19%
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16%
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40%
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14%
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5%
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25%
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Clinton, Bill
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55%
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41%
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29%
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26%
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18%
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23%
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4%
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Monroe. James
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49%
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10%
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20%
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29%
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6%
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4%
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41%
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Hoover, Herbert
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48%
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34%
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9%
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39%
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24%
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10%
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18%
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Johnson, Lyndon B.
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45%
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42%
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6%
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39%
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29%
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13%
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14%
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Johnson, Andrew
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45%
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26%
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10%
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35%
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17%
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9%
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30%
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Arthur, Chester A.
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43%
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17%
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20%
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23%
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14%
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3%
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40%
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Garfield, James A.
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42%
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16%
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14%
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28%
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13%
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3%
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32%
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McKinley, William
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42%
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24%
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7%
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35%
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20%
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40%
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35%
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Bush, George W.
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41%
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59%
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21%
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20%
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19%
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40%
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0%
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Cleveland, Grover
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40%
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26%
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9%
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31%
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22%
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4%
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34%
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Coolidge, Calvin
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38%
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31%
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8%
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30%
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23%
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8%
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31%
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Hayes, Rutherford B.
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38%
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19%
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13%
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25%
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13%
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6%
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43%
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Nixon, Richard
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32%
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60%
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9%
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23%
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35%
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25%
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7%
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Harrison, Benjamin
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30%
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35%
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6%
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24%
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25%
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10%
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35%
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Harding, Warren G.
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29%
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33%
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6%
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23%
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24%
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9%
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38%
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Buchanan, James
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28%
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32%
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5%
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23%
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22%
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10%
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40%
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Polk, James
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27%
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21%
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7%
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20%
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15%
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6%
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52%
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Taylor, Zachary
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26%
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18%
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6%
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20%
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14%
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4%
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55%
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Van Buren, Martin
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23%
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19%
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3%
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20%
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13%
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6%
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58%
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Harrison, William H.
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21%
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16%
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2%
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19%
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12%
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4%
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63%
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Pierce, Franklin
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17%
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25%
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3%
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14%
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18%
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7%
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59%
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Fillmore, Millard
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17%
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25%
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3%
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14%
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18%
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7%
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56%
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Tyler, John
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9%
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15%
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0%
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9%
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11%
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4%
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74%
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This is a Barf Alert of biblical proportions.
Carter will eventually sink to the bottom as his supporters eventually die off.
Slick Willie’s positive rating is delporable. The Press has done this nation a disservice.
Also belonging on The Worst list are Warren Harding, Ulysses Grant, Jimmy Carter, and especially Lyndon Johnson.
When the birthday holidays got all messed up, I thought that Martin L. King, Jr. was the most popular president in our history.
The real disservice done by the liberal press is the high rating John Kennedy ended up with. A womanizer, drug addict, and mafia tool, JFK was “removed” from power by high individuals in the CIA and incoming Johnson administration. They simply felt they had no other choice.
Not that the MSM is much interested.
Dear southerners: We will NEVER forgive you for Carter and Clinton.
Got that right,,
;-)
It AAAAAAALL depends on who you ask.
Don’t blame us ,,yall voted them in..
Well we supplied them, but you northerners elected them!!LOL
Oh! Add Lyndon Johnson to that list.
He was picked by JFK! We can’t be held responsible!!
My greatest disappointment was being too young to vote for Goldwater.
What a retarded headline... Bill Clinton has fare just as bad as GWB, yet it’s OF COURSE Nixon and Bush in the headline.
The biggest laugher of all is poor old Tippecanoe (William Henry Harrison) who served only 41 days, catching pneumonia at his inaugural and never really serving at all. He was rated near the bottom even though he did nothing good or bad. In my book, that is a mark of greatness a la John Calvin Coolidge.
George W. Bush will be viewed more favorably down the road. I am pretty confident that history will be kinder to him than his fellow countrymen have been.
In the same vein, while history may not view Clinton too negatively, they won’t be able to say much positive about him. He accomplished nothing worth noting. And he has all the sleazy activities, though barely reported on at the time, that are available for the historians to study and report on.
Yes, Kennedy was one of our worst presidents, for many reasons. I would add the Bay of Pigs and the assassination of Diem to your short list. But the Camelot myth was so effective, it may never wear off completely.
As for President Bush, current numbers are probably affected by conservative disillusion as well as liberal hatred. Give it another year and it may look quite different, if the amnesty disaster is allowed to fade away without yet another attempt to revive it.
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