Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever? | Consortiumnews
No shit. Sad its taken almost 30 years to realize this. The man destroyed America for normal every day Americans and set it on a path for the rich and only the rich.
Quinnipiac poll[edit]
A Quinnipiac University poll, taken June 24–30, 2014, asked 1446 registered voters in the US who they thought were the best and worst presidents since World War II.[34]
Best president since World War II
- Ronald Reagan (35%)
- Bill Clinton (18%)
- John F. Kennedy (15%)
- Barack Obama (8%)
- Dwight Eisenhower (5%)
- Harry S. Truman (4%)
- Lyndon B. Johnson (tie) (3%)
- George H.W. Bush (tie) (3%)
- Jimmy Carter (2%)
- Richard Nixon (tie) (1%)
- Gerald Ford (tie) (1%)
- George W. Bush (tie) (1%)
Worst president since World War II
- Barack Obama (33%)
- George W. Bush (28%)
- Richard Nixon (13%)
- Jimmy Carter (8%)
- Lyndon B. Johnson (tie) (3%)
- Ronald Reagan (tie) (3%)
- Bill Clinton (tie) (3%)
- Gerald Ford (tie) (2%)
- George H.W. Bush (tie) (2%)
- Dwight Eisenhower (1%)
- Harry S. Truman (tie) (<1%)
- John F. Kennedy (tie) (<1%)
Five myths about Ronald Reagan's legacy
1. Reagan was one of our most popular presidents.
It's true that Reagan is popular more than two decades after leaving office. A CNN/Opinion Research poll last month gave him the third-highest approval rating among presidents of the past 50 years, behind John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton.
But Reagan's average approval rating during the eight years that he was in office was nothing spectacular - 52.8 percent, according to Gallup. That places the 40th president not just behind Kennedy, Clinton and Dwight Eisenhower, but also Lyndon Johnson and George H.W. Bush, neither of whom are talked up as candidates for Mount Rushmore...
In the early 1990s, shortly after Reagan left office, several polls found even the much-maligned Jimmy Carter to be more popular.
Only since Reagan's 1994 disclosure that he had Alzheimer's disease - along with lobbying efforts by conservatives, such as Grover Norquist's Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, which pushed to rename Washington's National Airport for the president - has his popularity steadily climbed.
Five myths about Ronald Reagan's legacy
How Republicans created the myth of Ronald Reagan
Norquist and his allies proposed that spring was virtually unheard of — an active, mapped-out, audacious campaign to spread a distorted vision of Reagan’s legacy across America.
In a sense, some of the credit for triggering this may belong to those supposedly liberal editors at the New York Times, and their decision at the end of
1996 to publish that Arthur Schlesinger Jr. survey of the presidents. The below-average rating by the historians for Reagan, coming right on the heels of Clintons’ easy reelection victory, was a wake-up call for these people who came to Washington in the 1980s as the shock troops of a revolution and now saw everything slipping away ...
How Republicans created the myth of Ronald Reagan - Salon.com