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Poll: Obama worst president since WWII
2014 Jul 2, 1:35am 33,665 views 79 comments
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Ronald Reagan being far and away the best president since WW2 doesn't surprise me, but how does Carter only get 8% of the vote for the worst? He was just as bad, or worse, than Obama and Bush.
I knew he was/is the worst president from the moment he was elected. Guess I'm just a fortune teller, but yeah, no surprise here, the man is the worst of the worst.
And lakermania - Obama is Carter version 2.0, new, not-improved, and horrible. ALMOST (please note almost) makes one wish it was Carter again and not Obama. But I lived through Carter and it was horrible then too - just a bit worse now.
zzyzzx
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2014 Jul 2, 3:37am
how does Carter only get 8% of the vote for the worst
It's all Obama's fault!!! Obama is so much worse, plus how many people voting in the poll were old enough to remember Carter?
indigenous
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2014 Jul 2, 3:58am
Sounds about right although I would say O is FDR 2.0
I would vote for Eisenhower and Coolidge as best in recent times. Not Reagan.
Worst:
Wilson
FDR
LBJ
Obama
Lincoln
Its kind of hilarious all the arm-chair presidents bashing Obama. Everything these morons want to do is lower taxes, end welfare , make abortion illegal, and make everyone pray again in schools. Then, magically, everything will be better!
Obama is doing fine with the hand he was dealt... Only so much you can do with a pair of deuces and a closet full of shit problems piled a high.
Bellingham Bill
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2014 Jul 2, 4:16am
Obama is Carter version 2.0
I wish.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=EHe
shows how employment rose 10M 1977-80, and would have risen further if the Volcker Fed hadn't declared war on the economy at the end of his first term.
Carter was a helluva president. He was a centrist like Obama, but he got more liberal once out of office.
Carter if course had (D) Congresses, something Obama lost in 2010, well 2009 since the (R)s were filibustering everything then.
HydroCabron
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2014 Jul 2, 4:17am
make abortion illegal
And IUDs cause abortion! And you're more likely to purchase an IUD on a weekday! And weekdays are when women are most likely to work!
Therefore, letting women work causes abortion!
Maybe we shouldn't let the same people who think 97% of scientists are wrong about climate change decide what sorts of birth control constitute abortion...
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http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/poll-obama-worst-president-since-wwii-108507.html
A plurality of voters think Barack Obama is the worst president since World War II, a new poll says.
According to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, 33 percent of voters think the current president is the worst since 1945.
Obama’s predecessor, former President George W. Bush, came in at second-worst with 28 percent, and Richard Nixon was in third place with 13 percent of the vote. After Jimmy Carter, who 8 percent of voters said was the worst president in the time period, no other president received more than 3 percent.
Thirty-five percent of voters said Ronald Reagan was the best president since World War II, receiving nearly twice as many votes as any other former president. Bill Clinton came in second place at 18 percent, while John F. Kennedy came in third with 15 percent of the vote and Obama came in fourth with 8 percent saying he was the best.
All other remaining presidents received 5 percent or less. Five percent of voters said Dwight D. Eisenhower was the best president since 1945, while 4 percent said Harry Truman. Lyndon Johnson and George H.W. Bush each received 3 percent. George W. Bush came in at 1 percent.
Forty-five percent of voters said the U.S. would be better off with Mitt Romney serving in the White House, compared to 38 percent who said the country would be in worse shape.
The survey comes as Obama in recent weeks has found his popularity at the lowest levels of his presidency.
The Quinnipiac poll reported more bad news about the president’s approval and competency ratings. Forty percent of voters approve of the job Obama is doing, compared with 53 percent who disapprove. Fifty-four percent of voters say the Obama administration is not competent at running the government.
The survey was conducted June 24-30 with 1,446 registered voters on land lines and cellphones. The margin for error is plus or minus 2.6 percentage points.
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