Worst 20th Century President Elected in a Landslide?

[elperromagico]

Poll question: Worst 20th Century President Elected in a Landslide?

For the sake of this poll, "landslide" is defined as a victory margin of 15% or more. The names are listed in chronological order as follows:

Candidate Name (Election Year, Margin of Victory)

[Sandpiper]

1. It's a tough choice

Between the paranoid criminal (Nixon) and the drooling buffoon (Reagan), but I'll say the buffoon by a nose.

[pnorman]

7. My vote also.

I still have a visceral reaction towards Nixon, whereas it's really hard to "hate" Reagan. But Nixon operated within the framework of the New Deal, and wasn't rabidly hostile to many of our beliefs. But Reagan was the one whose administration ushered in what we're up to our necks in today.

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[Tim4319]

2. Ronald Reagan

Was an overrated president!

[elperromagico]

3. Looks like he might win in another landslide here at DU.

58% so far.

[Art_from_Ark]

5. Ronald Freakin' Reagan

For all his faults, Nixon still wasn't as bad as that bozo.

[ButterflyBlood]

4. who voted for FDR?

:wtf:

[elperromagico]

6. Alf Landon, probably.

[Muddleoftheroad]

17. Thank you

I wanted to know that as well.

[InhaleToTheChief]

8. Nixon leaves a bad taste...

...but the EPA started under him, and the Clean Water Act...and didn't the Endangered Species Act too? Hell, Nixon is arguably the most environmentally responsible president we have had...

Reagan, however, *earned* my vote in this particular poll.

[mike1963]

9. What was Raygun's margin in 80? I can't recall...

...

[elperromagico]

10. Nearly 10 percent.

[mike1963]

13. okay thanx

;-)

[Maccagirl]

11. Reagan

The mythology surrounding the man by his worshippers is appalling.

[Zookeeper]

12. Reagan...

I have never been able to fathom his "appeal!" He always seemed so creepy and phony to me...

[smirkymonkey]

14. Me either! I was only a young

kid when Nixon was in office, so I have no direct memory of him. But Reagan!! UGH!! I never got it, never will. Personally, I always though his stint as "President" was more of a "Weekend at Bernie's" kind of thing. He looked like he had been embalmed or something - creepy!

[Zynx]

15. Harding. Yes, he was worse than Reagan.

By any objective measure he was.

[K-W]

16. What if the neocon movement completely destroys the country.

Reagan has been a big part of it.

[Art_from_Ark]

18. Reagan vs. Harding

Both were "grandfatherly" lunkheads who were manipulated by the most vile and corrupt of puppeteers. However, the most notorious scandal of the Harding administration, Teapot Dome, pales in comparison with Reagan's Iran-Contra. Harding only had 2 1/2 years to do his damage; Reagan had eight. Reagan pitted American against American in a culture war, while Harding seems to have stayed out of the culture fray. And while all the corruption swirling around Reagan did not seem to affect him in the least, it is said that the scandals in Harding's administration weighed so heavily on his conscious that they led to his early demise.

Reagan was FAR worse than Harding.