Is Obama Really the Worst President in American History?
When the average man (or woman) in the street is asked to judge the relative success or failure of America's forty-four presidents, the results are always influenced by any number of factors, including personal biases, historical knowledge and, yes, ignorance.
For example, just try asking someone what they thought of Martin VanBuren or James K. Polk or Rutherford B. Hayes and see what responses you get.
More recently, since the end World War II, America has elected twelve Presidents: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama, a much more wieldy number to evaluate but even then there are wide disparities of opinion.
For low-information voters and liberal-leftists, an overlapping category, GOP Presidents George W. Bush or Richard M. Nixon or Ronald W. Reagan usually rank far and away as the worst presidents in our history and Presidents William J. Clinton or John F. Kennedy or FDR are deemed to be the best.
However, a new Quinnipiac University nationwide, telephone survey of 1,446 registered voters conducted June 24-July 2 (margin of error: +/- 2.6%) showed remarkable changes over the past six years with Reagan considered the best (35%) while the current White House occupant, Barack Hussein Obama, finished just ahead of George W. Bush.
Also, forty-five percent actually said that America would be better off had Mitt Romney won the last election and a whopping fifty-four percent of those polled felt the Obama administration is incompetent.
(See the complete Quinnipiac survey results at http://tinyurl.com/qgjo2cf.)
So, what are we to make of this latest, independent poll of American opinion, particularly of the public's estimation that president number forty-four is the worst thing to happen to our country in well over half a century, at least, and is worse than eleven others?
Based on my review of the survey, the conclusions seem valid as is the view of Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll that, €Over the span of 69 years of American history and 12 presidencies, President Barack Obama finds himself with President George W. Bush at the bottom of the popularity barrel.€
Nevertheless, the poll is clearly skewed in a probable attempt by Quinnipiac to mitigate Obama's miserable numbers in the interests of political correctness and making the president appear not all that bad.
What Mr. Malloy doesn't even allude to, and what the survey fails to consider, is racial demographics and racial voting patterns.
African-Americans voted overwhelmingly for Obama in both 2008 and 2012. Would it not have been statistically proper to factor in the number of blacks who still think he is the best president since Abe Lincoln despite the president's almost innumerable, proven failures and repetitive lies?
Excluding biased black voters, would Obama still finish at 8% or would he more likely be found to be the worst president in American history?
I think the latter.
For example, just try asking someone what they thought of Martin VanBuren or James K. Polk or Rutherford B. Hayes and see what responses you get.
More recently, since the end World War II, America has elected twelve Presidents: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama, a much more wieldy number to evaluate but even then there are wide disparities of opinion.
For low-information voters and liberal-leftists, an overlapping category, GOP Presidents George W. Bush or Richard M. Nixon or Ronald W. Reagan usually rank far and away as the worst presidents in our history and Presidents William J. Clinton or John F. Kennedy or FDR are deemed to be the best.
However, a new Quinnipiac University nationwide, telephone survey of 1,446 registered voters conducted June 24-July 2 (margin of error: +/- 2.6%) showed remarkable changes over the past six years with Reagan considered the best (35%) while the current White House occupant, Barack Hussein Obama, finished just ahead of George W. Bush.
Also, forty-five percent actually said that America would be better off had Mitt Romney won the last election and a whopping fifty-four percent of those polled felt the Obama administration is incompetent.
(See the complete Quinnipiac survey results at http://tinyurl.com/qgjo2cf.)
So, what are we to make of this latest, independent poll of American opinion, particularly of the public's estimation that president number forty-four is the worst thing to happen to our country in well over half a century, at least, and is worse than eleven others?
Based on my review of the survey, the conclusions seem valid as is the view of Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll that, €Over the span of 69 years of American history and 12 presidencies, President Barack Obama finds himself with President George W. Bush at the bottom of the popularity barrel.€
Nevertheless, the poll is clearly skewed in a probable attempt by Quinnipiac to mitigate Obama's miserable numbers in the interests of political correctness and making the president appear not all that bad.
What Mr. Malloy doesn't even allude to, and what the survey fails to consider, is racial demographics and racial voting patterns.
African-Americans voted overwhelmingly for Obama in both 2008 and 2012. Would it not have been statistically proper to factor in the number of blacks who still think he is the best president since Abe Lincoln despite the president's almost innumerable, proven failures and repetitive lies?
Excluding biased black voters, would Obama still finish at 8% or would he more likely be found to be the worst president in American history?
I think the latter.
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