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Watching "The Roosevelts" - just looking at Wikipedia's entry on rankings of US presidents. [View all]
Starting with the administration following Teddy Roosevelt (whose policies were pretty left), looking at aggregate rankings -
Democratic presidents - 6, 2, 7, 11, 14 (tie), 27, 20 (tie), 14 (tie) - out of 43 of course. 27 is Carter.
Republican presidents - 22 (tie), 43, 31, 29 (tie), 8 (tie), 32, 26, 17, 22 (tie), 34. 43 is Harding, 34 is Dubya. 8 is Eisenhower.
Seems 2011 is the last year of this sort of analysis - this is an interesting chart.
Historians clearly see what we see - for the most part, Republican presidents are just disasters!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States
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