Poll: Washington No Longer Favorite President

[Kadie]

Poll: Washington No Longer Favorite President
Lincoln Gets Top Honors

POSTED: 9:00 am PST February 20, 2005
UPDATED: 9:07 am PST February 20, 2005

WASHINGTON -- According to two new polls, the man considered the "Father of His Country" by school children for generations isn't America's favorite president.

In a poll commissioned by Washington College for President's Day, Americans rated Abraham Lincoln as the greatest commander-in-chief. A CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll put Ronald Reagan on top.

So where does the man on the $1 bill sit?

Well, in the Washington College survey he's seventh, after Bill Clinton and the current President George W. Bush.

more...
http://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/4215270/detail.html


edit to add this...


WHICH GEORGE W. WOULD AMERICANS ELECT?
NATION’S FIRST PRESIDENT WINS BY 20 POINTS IN NEW NATIONAL SURVEY

Yet, Poll Shows Young Americans Know Very Little About Founding Father

Chestertown, MD, February 17, 2005 — If George Washington returned from the dead and attempted to recapture the presidency of the United States, he would beat an incumbent President George W. Bush by nearly 20 percentage points, according to a new national poll conducted for Washington College by the public affairs research firm of Schulman, Ronca & Bucuvalas, Inc. Asked to choose between George Washington and George W. Bush, Republicans in the survey supported Bush by a margin of more than 2 to 1, while Democrats and independents overwhelmingly favored Washington.

more...
http://www.washcoll.edu/wc/news/press_releases/05_02_16_washington_poll.html

[ohkay]

1. My favorite

was Wilson. But then again, I'm a crazy lefty pinko Mass liberal, so what do I know?

[DefenseLawyer]

6. Wilson was quite the racist

even for his time. His administration instituted segregation in federal government for the first time since Abraham Lincoln began desegregation in 1863, and required photographs from job applicants to determine their race. Wilson was very progressive in some areas, particularly labor, but he has a lot to answer for regarding race relations, in my opinion. But we are all entitled to our opinions.

[alphafemale]

9. Wasn't he the one that endorsed that huge KKK march in D.C.?

There was talk about him in that "Lies My Teacher Told Me Book" by James Lowyll. (sp?)

Yikes!

[DefenseLawyer]

10. The Klan reached its peak in 1924-25

or so, after Wilson left office, but the so-called "second KKK" was founded during his administration. Many point to his repeated screenings and glowing endorsements of the film "Birth of a Nation" (used in advertisements to promote the film) which was based on a novel The Clansman, written by a good friend Wilson, Thomas Dixon, as pivotal in the reemergence of the Klan. The film glorified the Klan as protectors of virtue and was instrumental in giving the Klan support and legitimacy.

[RetroLounge]

2. What does that link say?

The Crack Channel?

RL

[Kadie]

3. LOL

It looks like it doesn't it. They really should change that.

[hlthe2b]

4. Only underscores how poor American's knowledge of history....

how little Americans read, and how much soundbyte propaganda has replaced fact.

[patricia92243]

5. It sounds like just a "Name recognition" thing. Reagan in news recently

[Historic NY]

7. How sad........

there would have been no country w/o the sheer will & determination of George Washington.

[Spirochete]

8. George the First vs George the Worst...