| Retrasado said: ^^dude, I've got nothing against his civil rights legislation, but the stuff I mentioned is why I think he's so bad. (there's a reson he didn't run for a second term in '68) also, where have you seen LBJ ranked higher than Ronald Reagan? Just curious. (I'm assuming there was a reason Reagan got 528 electoral votes in 1984) |
Yeah. His health. He had heart problems due to his health. Besides it's not like voting always matters. I mean sometimes the president has to go against popular opinion to do the right thing.(civil rights bills were unpopular at that time to my knowledge.) That's the biggest problem with democracies. People start voting for what they want instead of what they need.
He left the Office in 1969. He died in 1973.
Reagan got 528 electoral votes in 1984 because of who he was up against.
As for the Poll, The Siena Research Institute's 2002. It polls historical scholars. They're the best because they seem to get the most historical scholars to do a poll.
Lyndon Johnson ranks ahead of him.
While Reagan "won the cold war"... pretty much anyone could have as it was already crumbling, Reagan was just smart (or foolhardy) enough to seal his legacy by making the big speech people told him was a bad idea.)
There was also the giant raising of the national debt and the Iran Contra. Which started the strain on our economy and the discrediting of our country to other nations.
(FYI early polling seems to suggest that Bush is going to drop pretty far from his 2002 numbers where he was ranked in the top half of the presidents... right after 9/11. The whole Iraq thing really screwed up his legacy.)
