Rate the Dead Presidents!
Here is your chance to see how the Dead Presidents rate, and your chance
to spout off for your favorite or least favorite. Cast your vote for any
of the men using the scale from negative five to positive five, with zero
being "average." Look at what your fellow Dead Presidents fans have to
say about each of the Chief Executives, and add your own two bits.
This is about as scientific as any other Internet poll (which means, it's
not scientific at all). One vote per person per President, please (this is
mildly enforced, so you shouldn't be able to make a mistake and pump
someone's rating higher or lower). This is a democracy, after all.
[Well, the nation is a democratic republic, but this poll
is a democracy. ...With a touch of tyranny, since I will personally
edit all profanity out of any comments you leave.]
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of comments about their fellows, made by the Dead Presidents themselves.
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| George Washington
| 908
| +3.59
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| John Adams
| 358
| +1.34
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| Thomas Jefferson
| 426
| +2.47
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| James Madison
| 200
| +1.46
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| James Monroe
| 206
| +0.71
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| John Quincy Adams
| 208
| +0.44
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| Andrew Jackson
| 298
| +0.61
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| Martin Van Buren
| 165
| +0.32
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| William Henry Harrison
| 183
| -1.30
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| John Tyler
| 180
| +0.37
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| James Knox Polk
| 236
| +1.05
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| Zachary Taylor
| 156
| -0.06
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| Millard Fillmore
| 162
| -1.41
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| Franklin Pierce
| 168
| -2.17
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| James Buchanan
| 213
| -2.65
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| Abraham Lincoln
| 706
| +2.99
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| Andrew Johnson
| 260
| -0.50
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| Ulysses S. Grant
| 751
| +1.46
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| Rutherford B. Hayes
| 177
| -0.18
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| James Garfield
| 166
| +0.65
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| Chester Alan Arthur
| 169
| +0.07
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| Grover Cleveland
| 166
| +1.64
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| Benjamin Harrison
| 140
| -1.34
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| William McKinley
| 157
| +1.13
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| Theodore Roosevelt
| 370
| +2.48
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| William Howard Taft
| 198
| +0.18
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| Woodrow Wilson
| 306
| +0.73
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| Warren G. Harding
| 232
| -2.58
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| Calvin Coolidge
| 241
| -0.32
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| Herbert Hoover
| 211
| -1.56
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| Franklin Roosevelt
| 495
| +2.56
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| Harry Truman
| 332
| +2.47
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower
| 292
| +1.26
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| John F. Kennedy
| 727
| -0.12
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| Lyndon Johnson
| 438
| -0.22
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| Richard Nixon
| 619
| -1.28
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| Gerald Ford
| 85
| +0.75
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| Ronald Reagan
| 473
| +0.77
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| President
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| Rating
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Given the ratings above,
and factoring the time served in office by each man,
the average Dead President rates at +0.85
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