C-Span ranks the presidents

[Ombligo]

C-Span uses nearly 100 historians and biographers to rate the former US presidents. The survey is released after a sitting president's term, so C-SPAN will likely include President Joe Biden in its next round of the ranking, after he leaves office.

Everyone's favorite narcissist ranked 41st, just below William Henry Harrison who died 32 days after taking office. miley-laughing001:

The current rankings:
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harry S. Truman
Thomas Jefferson
John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Barack Obama
Lyndon B. Johnson
James Monroe
Woodrow Wilson
William McKinley
John Adams
James Madison
John Quincy Adams
James K. Polk
William J. Clinton
Ulysses S. Grant
George H. W. Bush
Andrew Jackson
William Howard Taft
Calvin Coolidge
Grover Cleveland
Jimmy Carter
James A. Garfield
Gerald R. Ford
George W. Bush
Chester A. Arthur
Richard M. Nixon
Benjamin Harrison
Rutherford B. Hayes
Martin Van Buren
Zachary Taylor
Herbert Hoover
Warren G. Harding
Millard Fillmore
John Tyler
William Henry Harrison
Donald J. Trump
Franklin Pierce
Andrew Johnson
James Buchanan

[SteveG]

I beg to differ

[steve...]

miley-score010:

[SteveG]

or if you prefer

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Cheeto's rating will drop by 20 points after all the wackos over 50 die. This assumes the US is still around by then.

[anonymouse1]

Woodrow Wilson is ranked far, far too high, IMHO.

[Speedy]

anonymouse1 wrote:
Woodrow Wilson is ranked far, far too high, IMHO.

Almost all of them are ranked too high.

[SDGuy]

I think any recent President is too fresh in memory to be properly ranked - waiting around 50 years or so, especially so that seeing the long-term effects of their policies & actions can be judged with the benefit of hindsight seems more appropriate.

[DeusxMac]

These "rankings" are ALWAYS in flux. They have been since they started.

"Ranking systems are usually based on surveys of academic historians and political scientists or popular opinion. The scholarly rankings focus on presidential achievements, leadership qualities, failures and faults. Popular-opinion polls typically focus on recent or well-known presidents."

[vision63]

It's not fair. Trump freed the knaves.