The big political news of the day is the Quinnipiac poll that shows 33 percent of Americans say President Obama is the worst president since World War II -- the most of any president who served over that span.
The
poll demonstrates Obama's problems -- which are many -- but it probably
says more the American people and their nearsightedness.
As our own Philip Bump noted,
the last time Quinnipiac asked the same question, in 2006, the American
people also chose the current president, then George W. Bush.
Going back even further, this question has proven similarly unkind to
those who have made the poor decision to be president too close to when
the poll was conducted.
Here's are similar polls from Gallup in
1999 and 2000. Guess who just happened to place second? The guy who was
in the White House! Bill Clinton even got more votes than Jimmy Carter,
who to this day is basically the guy Republicans point to when they want to reference a bad Democratic president.
Back in 1998, ABC News conducted a similar poll, asking who was the
worst president "in your lifetime." The deck was even more stacked in
favor of the older presidents here (given younger people's short
lifespans disqualified them), but it's still worth noting that the top
four finishers were four of the last six presidents.
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