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Poll Ranks Biden as 14th-Best President in American History, With Trump Last
The New York Times ^ | Feb. 18, 2024 | Peter Baker

Posted on 02/19/2024 8:57:25 AM PST by Trump20162020

Mr. Biden’s signature accomplishment, according to the historians, was evicting Donald J. Trump from the Oval Office.

President Biden has not had a lot of fun perusing polls lately. He has a lower approval rating than every president going back to Dwight D. Eisenhower at this stage of their tenures, and he trails former President Donald J. Trump in a fall rematch. But Mr. Biden can take solace from one survey in which he is way out in front of Mr. Trump.

A new poll of historians coming out on Presidents’ Day weekend ranks Mr. Biden as the 14th-best president in American history, just ahead of Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan and Ulysses S. Grant. While that may not get Mr. Biden a spot on Mount Rushmore, it certainly puts him well ahead of Mr. Trump, who places dead last as the worst president ever.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: abrahamaccords; agitprop; biden; donaldtrump; idiotpoll; joebiden; lyingliberalliar; medialiar; mediawingofthednc; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; nytlovestraitors; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; peterbaker; trump; whatshisfrnick
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To: Trump20162020

When you see the word “project” in a title, you know there is a foregone outcome.


21 posted on 02/19/2024 9:17:31 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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Biden’s only actual accomplishment would be the infrastructure bill which was just a huge waste of money. Not sure what else he did. Trump should be ranked a lot higher for at least not starting a new war , which doesn’t sound like an accomplishment but it’s better than the last bunch of presidents


22 posted on 02/19/2024 9:17:56 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Trump20162020

Let me guess all these historians just loved the scholarly work of Hannah-Jones.


23 posted on 02/19/2024 9:27:21 AM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Where was this poll taken? NYC? Washington D.C.?


Fani’s backside.


24 posted on 02/19/2024 9:28:30 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: Trump20162020

I’m betting that they actually polled those 51 “intelligence” officials...


25 posted on 02/19/2024 9:28:30 AM PST by pookie18 (You don’t have to be high on crack to enjoy Pookie’s Toons! - Tell It Right)
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To: EnderWiggin1970

“Smart Stupid People,” is the term Dan Bongino uses for these idiots.


26 posted on 02/19/2024 9:28:38 AM PST by cld51860 ("This business will get out of control...")
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To: Trump20162020

I thought they closed all the insane asylums.


27 posted on 02/19/2024 9:29:18 AM PST by tiki
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To: Trump20162020

I thought they closed all the insane asylums.


28 posted on 02/19/2024 9:29:42 AM PST by tiki
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To: Fungi

Pure unadulterated crap

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Yep...and it’s only going to get worse. I saw this yesterday and just laughed at it. There will be some rubes out there that will fall for this hook line and sinker.


29 posted on 02/19/2024 9:30:39 AM PST by mlitefan (Long time lurker...)
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To: Trump20162020

Bottom 5: Biden, Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Andrew Johnson


30 posted on 02/19/2024 9:40:00 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GFLOBALISM ! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: Jane Long; EvilCapitalist
EVILCAPITALIST: Where was this poll taken? NYC? Washington D.C.?

JANE LONG: Fani’s backside.

RLMOREL: That can't be right. It said there were 154 "scholars" in there. There had to be a lot more, because there is certainly room for them.

31 posted on 02/19/2024 9:40:05 AM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: Trump20162020
Historian David McCullough would have voted differently, but he died in 2022.

-PJ

32 posted on 02/19/2024 9:43:16 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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now why do they even do these stupid lists...its all left wing psychos writing them...


33 posted on 02/19/2024 9:43:44 AM PST by basalt (qb's)
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To: pookie18
"The study was based on 154 responses from scholars across the country.
34 posted on 02/19/2024 9:44:09 AM PST by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: Trump20162020

For such a poll, if it ever happened, to have ANY credibility they would have to publish WHO was polled. The underlying data I’m sure would show it was mainly democrats that were polled. Democrats would spit on their own mother if it would advance the ball on a political issue.


35 posted on 02/19/2024 9:45:44 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: Trump20162020

Baghdad Bob found a new job, I see.


36 posted on 02/19/2024 9:48:37 AM PST by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: rlmorel

😂😂😂🤣

You are right on, about that!


37 posted on 02/19/2024 9:54:35 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: Right Brother

New time, I’ll have to say I was being sarcastic. However, most “historians” are far left...


38 posted on 02/19/2024 10:00:26 AM PST by pookie18 (You don’t have to be high on crack to enjoy Pookie’s Toons! - Tell It Right)
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To: EnderWiggin1970; pookie18

The Times got it wrong. It was a poll of political scientists, not historians.


39 posted on 02/19/2024 10:07:36 AM PST by x
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To: Trump20162020
Something is terribly wrong with the survey. Even the "conservative" and "Republican" scholars surveyed -- and there's no indication of how many of them were surveyed or what percentage of the total they were -- rated Trump as worse than Biden or Bush II.

When it comes to which president should join Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt on Mt. Rushmore, Franklin Delano Roosevelt again comes in first, by a wide margin (65.4%). Barack Obama came in second (11%), followed by a three-way tie between Dwight Eisenhower, James Madison, and John F. Kennedy (4% each)

Idiots.

They also asked the "experts" to say who they thought was "most overrated" and "most underrated."

Jimmy Carter is the most under-rated president, selected by 64 respondents and earning a 2.2 average (1 is a “most under-rated” ranking). Ulysses Grant is the second-most under-rated (56, 2.4), followed by George H.W. Bush (47, 2.9), Eisenhower (45, 2.8), Lyndon Johnson (43 (2.3), and Biden (42, 2.9). Conversely, John F. Kennedy is considered the most over-rated president, selected by 84 respondents and earning a 2.4 average (1 is a “most over-rated” ranking), followed very closely by Ronald Reagan (83, 2.1), then Jackson (70, 2.3), Wilson (60, 2.9), Jefferson (37, 3.3), and Teddy Roosevelt (40, 2.5).

Kennedy is indeed overrated, but it took them 50 years to realize it. Maybe in another 50 years they'll realize they overrated Obama.

And Reagan overrated? Not if Biden, Kennedy, and Obama are judged better than he is.

The "overrateds" indicate the folly of the question. By the time "experts" decide someone is "overrated" they've already downgraded and underrated him.

Reagan was originally low in the polls and rose as respondents realized their mistake. Now he's falling again and they think he is overrated.

But Jimmy Carter as most underrated? Ridiculous. The "experts" forget more than they ever manage to learn.

40 posted on 02/19/2024 10:08:10 AM PST by x
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