Find, view and share videos about news and entertainment from around the Web.
See Videos »

Blog Chatter

NEWS ALERTS

Get the latest updates sent straight to your inbox.

Sign up to receive AOL News alerts by e-mail.

Americans Rank Lincoln as Top President

AOL
Posted: 2008-02-17 09:56:44
Filed Under: Nation News
(Feb. 17) - Far and away, Abraham Lincoln is ranked by Americans as the nation's greatest president, according to a poll conducted by Harris Interactive and released this week, just ahead of Presidents Day. What's surprising is that President George W. Bush, whose approval rating has plunged to just 30 percent, also sneaks into the top ten list.


The Harris poll points out that recent presidents tend to be listed more often as both the best and the worst. In a separate poll asking Americans to name the worst commander-in-chief since World War II, Bush won in a landslide, netting 34 percent of the vote.

The online survey posed this question to 2,302 adults in the U.S.: Which one of the following presidents do you think was the best overall president in our history?

The list of options people could choose from included all presidents since Franklin Roosevelt, along with some of the more famous from earlier in American history – George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Calvin Coolidge.

Scores were tallied by adding the percentage of those who answered “best” and “second best” for each president. Among modern leaders, Ronald Reagan ranked highest, but even his cache could not compete with the mighty Abe Lincoln, who was named the top president by 20 percent of those surveyed.

The man who saw the nation through the Civil War is still driving headlines too. In the last year, rare and historic photographs have emerged of Lincoln’s inauguration and his famous Gettysburg Address. A study also revealed why his face is so unique. Click through the photos below to learn more about recent Lincoln discoveries.



2008 AOL LLC. All Rights Reserved.
2008-02-16 15:45:11
Bookmark

Recent Comments

1 - 10 of 15271
15271 comments

nibirurising 12:23:52 AM Apr 05 2008

booger booger booger

antijacobin2 01:19:15 PM Mar 05 2008

"freespiritman" is a typical leftist . MARX has caused MORE death/war/genocide than ANYONE else. Hitler was a National SOCIALIST/Mao/Castro/Stalin...etc... ever heard of Pol Pot? He murdered 0ver 56% of Cambodians. ALL ATHEIST Marxists!

Do NOT attack all religions as being equal- You show your IGNORANCE is only matched by your ARROGANCE.

Christ teaches "Love Your Neighbor as yourself"
Be kind to those who mistreat you"
islam beheads those who convert to Christ

freespiritman 01:49:51 AM Mar 03 2008

hello? I want to get to the latest blogs but cannot, so I hope this does it!

freespiritman 01:46:21 AM Mar 03 2008

Peace on Earth, for all religions, good will towards all....Ha! Religion is the single biggest reason in history for WAR!!! What hypocracy. I wish we practice what the Koran, Bible, etc. and not manipulate it for our own ends...When someone here blogged that the early Presidents didn't let get caught up in religion...can anyone say Mason...or Free Mason? Still going strong today, doing good works I might add, average people helping average people...helllloooo. Makes sense to me!

antijacobin2 04:53:19 PM Mar 01 2008

Never does a day go by where the name of Jesus Christ is not dragged through the mud.

For example, while I engaged in negotiations a few days ago, the other attorney utilized the name of Christ as a swear word at least three different times.

This is nothing new. Every day I go to court, the Name of Christ is bandied about as a curse word. Many times, His Name is uttered in close proximity to the F-bomb.

Attorneys are not the only guilty ones though. In nearly every profession and walk of life, regardless of education, people daily blaspheme the One True God of Holy Scripture by taking the Lord's name in vain, and using it as a dirty word.

As any DVD movie will reveal, His name is used constantly in a derogatory way. Almost never do movie-makers use His name in a glorifying manner. Only as a curse word.

Again, on television, Christ's name is constantly blasphemed everywhere, unless of course, it is uttered on one of those segregated "religious" channels. God forbid that Christ's na

kunzsp 08:16:30 PM Feb 28 2008

President Bush is the essence of cool. I'm think of the time when he took
the Japanese leader to Elvis' mansion. Phyllis Kunz

kunzsp 11:36:19 AM Feb 28 2008

How President Reagan rated No. 2 is beyond me. I could never warm up to him
and his wife who both were too much. for me. This is an unprecedented time in
history and thank God for Pres. Bush. No other man would be up to the challenge.
1.Pres. Bush
2.Pres. Eisenhower
3.George Washingon
Phyllis Kunz

antijacobin 03:16:06 PM Feb 26 2008

Got A.I.D.S?

THANK The "gay' Community" !!!!!!!!!

Hepatitis A was spread by a "gay" man to Brad Pitt/Beyonce'/Gwyneth etc...
Hopefully now THEY will SUFFER what they spread to the normal citizens- DISEASE!
STILL the DEMOcraps PANDER to this sad ,sick subculture
NOW with LIAR McCain the REUBLICANS do too!
McCain wants ignorant, criminal Mexicans to STEAL jobs from US Citizens and get FREE $$$ healthcare etc...while they kill , rape and rob.

Look at wehategringos.com

kunzsp 11:21:04 AM Feb 26 2008

If there is a man who can bring peace to The Middle East and to the world,
President George W. Bush is such a man. Phyllis Kunz

antijacobin 04:04:46 PM Feb 24 2008

Got A.I.D.S?

THANK The "gay' Community" !!!!!!!!!

Hepatitis A was spread by a "gay" man to Brad Pitt/Beyonce'/Gwyneth etc...
Hopefully now THEY will SUFFER what they spread to the normal citizens- DISEASE!
STILL the DEMOcraps PANDER to this sad ,sick subculture

1 - 10 of 15271
15271 comments

Add your own Comments

* Want the latest Hot Seat polls delivered to your Vista desktop? Hot Seat Vista Gadget »

Top Videos

News Bloggers