ranking the presidents

RantPolitical ranks the presidents,  George W. Bush is ranked just ahead of Obama.

There have been 43 presidents.

43. Andrew Johnson
38. Herbert Hoover
37. Jimmy Carter
36. Obama
35. George W. Bush
31. Gerald Ford
30. Nixon.  "The reality is Nixon was a good president, aside from his criminal activity of course."
18. George H. W. Bush
16. Lyndon Johnson
15. John F. Kennedy
14. Clinton.  "He was willing to compromise and get things done."
9. Reagan
8. Eisenhower.  Established DARPA which would give birth to the internet
7. Truman
5. Thomas Jefferson
4. Theodore Roosevelt.  He was a naturalist who gave us many of our National Parks.  Ordered construction of the Panama Canal
3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  His New Deal is often credited with ending the Great Depression which was truly ended by WWII.
2. George Washington.
1. Abraham Lincoln.  There was a lot that he did that was considered unconstitutional.

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Checking wikipedia.  Lincoln, FDR, Washington are consistently ranked at the top of the lists.

In 2012, Newsweek magazine asked a panel of historians to rank the ten best presidents since 1900. The results showed that historians had ranked Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama as the best since that year.

A 2013 History News Network poll of 203 American historians, when asked to rate Barack Obama's presidency on an A–F scale, gave him a B- grade. Obama, whom historians graded using 15 separate measures plus an overall grade, was rated most highly in the categories of communication ability, integrity, and crisis management, and most poorly for his relationship with Congress and transparency and accountability.

A 2015 poll, administered by the American Political Science Association among political scientists specializing in the American presidency, had Abraham Lincoln in the top spot, with George Washington, Franklin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bill Clinton, Andrew Jackson, and Woodrow Wilson cracking the top 10.

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Obama up to #18?