Jedi Master Carr
Feb 16th, 2009, 10:31:30 AM
In honor of President's Day C-Span Ranked the presidents.
http://www.c-span.org/PresidentialSurvey/presidential-leadership-survey.aspx
Some of the list is okay, but I think they rank some presidents too high like Kennedy, Reagan, and Truman none of them belong that high.
If I had to rank the top 10 and bottom 10 I would do it this way (I think you have to exclude William Henry Harrison and Garfield neither was president for more than 3 months.)
1 Lincoln
2 Jefferson
3 FDR
4 Theodore Roosevelt
5 Washington
6 James Madison
7 Harry Truman
8 James Polk
9 Woodrow Wilson
10 John Adams
Bottom 5
40 Harding
39 Buchanan
38 Grant
37 Pierce
36 Filmore
I just changed my mind with Jackson, Wilson was just below Adams for me so he is a good replacement.
http://www.c-span.org/PresidentialSurvey/presidential-leadership-survey.aspx
Some of the list is okay, but I think they rank some presidents too high like Kennedy, Reagan, and Truman none of them belong that high.
If I had to rank the top 10 and bottom 10 I would do it this way (I think you have to exclude William Henry Harrison and Garfield neither was president for more than 3 months.)
1 Lincoln
2 Jefferson
3 FDR
4 Theodore Roosevelt
5 Washington
6 James Madison
7 Harry Truman
8 James Polk
9 Woodrow Wilson
10 John Adams
Bottom 5
40 Harding
39 Buchanan
38 Grant
37 Pierce
36 Filmore
I just changed my mind with Jackson, Wilson was just below Adams for me so he is a good replacement.