Thursday, August 7, 2014

Was Jimmy Carter Really The Worst President?

Was Jimmy Carter Really The Worst President? ---

*References

Presidential Rankings | Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/spot/presrankings1.html#ixzz39jP827eo

  • C-SPAN Survey of Presidential Leadership
    C-SPAN is a private, non-profit information service, providing televised coverage of the proceedings of the U.S. Congress and other public affairs programming 24 hours a day. The survey, however, just covers past presidents, not the current one.

  • The Roper Center's Presidential Job Approval Ratings
    Located at the University of Connecticut, the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is a major repository of public opinion data. This survey includes the current president, George W. Bush.

  • Federalist Society—Wall Street Journal Survey on Presidents

  • The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is an organization of conservatives and libertarians seeking to promote the ideals of individual liberty, limited government, and rule of law within the legal system.

  • The Siena Research Institute of Siena College, Loudonville, NY, conducts regional, statewide, and national surveys on a variety of issues. The surveys include expert and public opinion polls.

  • Zogby International Presidential Greatness Poll
    Zogby International conducts public opinion polls and marketing research worldwide.


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    • CSPAN Carter #25 ranks higher than George W. Bush or Richard Nixon


    *CSPAN Carter #25 ranks higher than George W. Bush or Richard Nixon

    TOTAL SCORES/OVERALL RANKING

    President's Name2009 Final ScoreOverall Ranking
    20092000
    Abraham Lincoln90211
    George Washington85423
    Franklin D. Roosevelt83732
    Theodore Roosevelt78144
    Harry S. Truman70855
    John F. Kennedy70168
    Thomas Jefferson69877
    Dwight D. Eisenhower68989
    Woodrow Wilson68396
    Ronald Reagan6711011
    Lyndon B. Johnson6411110
    James K. Polk6061212
    Andrew Jackson6061313
    James Monroe6051414
    Bill Clinton6051521
    William McKinley5991615
    John Adams5451716
    George H. W. Bush5421820
    John Quincy Adams5421919
    James Madison5352018
    Grover Cleveland5232117
    Gerald R. Ford5092223
    Ulysses S. Grant4902333
    William Howard Taft4852424
    Jimmy Carter4742522
    Calvin Coolidge4692627
    Richard M. Nixon4502725
    James A. Garfield4452829
    Zachary Taylor4432928
    Benjamin Harrison4423031
    Martin Van Buren4353130
    Chester A. Arthur4203232
    Rutherford B. Hayes4093326
    Herbert Hoover3893434
    John Tyler3723536
    George W. Bush36236NA
    Millard Fillmore3513735
    Warren G. Harding3273838
    William Henry Harrison3243937
    Franklin D. Pierce2874039
    Andrew Johnson2584140
    James Buchanan2274241

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  • Jimmy Carter - A Great President? - Daily Kos

    www.dailykos.com/story/.../-Jimmy-Carter-A-Great-President
    Daily Kos
    Aug 28, 2013 - I don't actually believe Carter was a great President. I liked him as President and generally approved of his policies. Yet even I recognize he ...

  • Jimmy Carter: 'We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a ...

    www.theguardian.com › News › World news › Jimmy Carter
    The Guardian
    Sep 10, 2011 - President Jimmy Carter at home last month in Plains, Georgia. ...reminiscent of that other great Jimmy, the patron saint of small-town American  ...

  • David Macaray: 10 Good Things President Carter Did

    www.huffingtonpost.com/.../10-good-things-the-39t...
    The Huffington Post
    Sep 1, 2011 - Vilified by the Republicans and mocked by the Democrats, Carterreached the point where he was regarded by his own party as such a political ...Call it historical perspective, call it acquired wisdom, call it simple nostalgia, but most things tend to look better in the rear view mirror. Take the hapless Jimmy Carter administration for example. Arguably, among the (many) negative things Carter will be remembered for are runaway inflation, the Iran hostage debacle, and questionable deregulation of the transportation, communication, and financial industries.

    Vilified by the Republicans and mocked by the Democrats, Carter reached the point where he was regarded by his own party as such a political liability that they (in the person of Ted Kennedy) tried to torpedo him in the 1980 primary. Not something you do to a successful incumbent.
  • 8. Established diplomatic relations with China.
  • 9. Pushed for comprehensive health care reform
  • 10. Returned the Panama Canal to Panama. 

  • Stop picking on Jimmy Carter - CSMonitor.com

    www.csmonitor.com/.../p09s03-coop.html
    The Christian Science Monitor
    Jan 5, 2009 - He suffers from an egregiously unfair reputation. His record, though, shows he was quite a good president.

  • American President: Jimmy Carter: Impact and Legacy

    millercenter.org/president/carter/essays/.../...
    Miller Center of Public Affairs
    Carter took office just thirty months after a President had left the entire federal ... His stubborn independence, a great asset while climbing to the presidency, was  ...

  • American President: Biography of Jimmy Carter - Miller Center

    millercenter.org/president/carter/.../print
    Miller Center of Public Affairs
    Carter was the first American President born in a hospital, and he was raised on his ....But the return to Plains became the greatest crisis of the Carter marriage.

  • Does anyone out there think that Jimmy Carter was a good President ...

    https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid...
    Aug 1, 2006 - I good man yes good president no. By the end of his term our economy was in the toilet, inflation was out of control, the prime rate was in double ...
    What good things did jimmy carter do as president?
    5 answers
    Apr 7, 2011
    Jimmy Carter: Great president or greatest president?
    8 answers
    Mar 30, 2011
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    24 answers
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    14 answers
    Jan 3, 2008
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  • Jindal: Jimmy Carter, You're Not the Worst President Ever ...

    www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/...carter.../id/556555
    Newsmax Media
    Mar 6, 2014 - ... in suburban Washington with a heartfelt and sincere apology to JimmyCarter for calling him the worst president of this great country in my ...

  • ELI5: Why was Jimmy Carter such an unpopular president ...

    www.reddit.com/.../eli5_why_was_jimmy_carter_such_an_unpop...
    Reddit
    Nov 29, 2013 - Carter was president during a time of high inflation and high ..... Volcker also came up with a great idea that help stabilize markets a few years  ...

  • Why is Jimmy Carter not regarded as a great president ...

    www.reddit.com/.../why_is_jimmy_carter_not_regarded_as_a_gre...
    Reddit
    Sep 6, 2013 - Why does he never get mentioned as a good president and why isn't he wider respected among Americans and the wider world?
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