In case you’re curious, here’s the changes that were made with the Siena poll between 2002 and 2010.<\/p>\n
Abraham Lincoln.\u00c2\u00a0 Was #3.\u00c2\u00a0 Now is #2.
\nTheodore Roosevelt.\u00c2\u00a0 Was #2.\u00c2\u00a0 Now is #3.
\nWoodrow Wilson.\u00c2\u00a0 Was #6.\u00c2\u00a0 Now is #8.
\nHarry Truman.\u00c2\u00a0 Was #7.\u00c2\u00a0 Now is #9.
\nJames Monroe.\u00c2\u00a0 Was #8.\u00c2\u00a0 Now is #7.
\nJames Madison.\u00c2\u00a0 Was #9.\u00c2\u00a0 Now is #6.
\nJames Polk.\u00c2\u00a0 Was #11.\u00c2\u00a0 Now is #12.
\nJohn Adams.\u00c2\u00a0 Was #12.\u00c2\u00a0 Now is #17.
\nAndrew Jackson.\u00c2\u00a0 Was #13.\u00c2\u00a0 Now is #14.
\nJohn Kennedy.\u00c2\u00a0 Was #14.\u00c2\u00a0 Now is #11.<\/p>\n
It is here that we have a new divider.\u00c2\u00a0 Barack Obama has been inserted to the list at #15.\u00c2\u00a0 Does hit belong there?\u00c2\u00a0 To hell if\u00c2\u00a0I know.\u00c2\u00a0 I do enjoy the carping from Reagan fans that they’ve barely seen him ever on any of these lists crack the top 10.<\/p>\n
Lyndon Johnson keeps his same assessment, at #15 in 2002, at #16 in 2010.\u00c2\u00a0 And so…<\/p>\n
Ronald Regan goes from #16 to #18.
\nJohn Quincy Adams goes from #17 to #19.
\nBill Clinton jumps from #18 to #13.
\nWilliam McKinley falls from #19 down to #21.
\nGrover Cleveland jumps from #20 by remaining at #20.
\nWilliam Howard Taft falls from #21 down to #24.
\nGeorge Herbert Walker Bush rises from #22 by remaining at #22.<\/p>\n
And George W Bush?\u00c2\u00a0 Falls from #23 (when, I suppose, he was thought of as another Bush, and in the shadow of a 9\/11 Glow) down to #39.<\/p>\n
This throws the poll into another great rippling.<\/p>\n
Martin Van Buren rises from #24 to #23.
\nJimmy Carter falls from #25 to #32 — the second greatest noticable drop.
\nRichard Nixon falls from #26 to #30 — notable as well.
\nRutherford Hayes falls from #27 to #31, as though his fate is to entwined with Nixon’s.
\nGerald Ford rises in esteem by hanging steady at #28.\u00c2\u00a0 Something has changed to pull him ahead of Nixon.
\nCalvin Coolidge rises in esteem by hanging steady at #29.
\nChester Arthur jumps to Carter’s old spot (or, I guess Martin Van Buren if we subtract Obama) , going up from #30 to #25.
\nHerbert Hoover falls from #31 down to #36.\u00c2\u00a0 It is not hard to figure out why.
\nBenajamin Harrison falls from #32 to #34.
\nJames Garfield jumps from #33 to #27 — another ripple here — why his rise in esteem, I haven’t got a clue.
\nZachary Taylor goes from #34 to #33.
\nUllyseus Grant goes from #35 to #26 — another one of those great ripples, and it’s been a long march upward for him.
\nWilliam Henry Harrison goes from #36 to #35.
\nJohn Tyler remains at #37 — again, that counts as a jump forward.
\nAs with Millard Fillmore at #38.
\nAnd the bottom four remain the same, joined in the bottom five by you know you.<\/p>\n
What does it mean that Lincoln has usurped Teddy Roosevelt for the number two spot?\u00c2\u00a0 A bit of “Team of Rivals” haliography.\u00c2\u00a0 Similarly, John Adams’s fall comes as David McCollough’s book fades away from its 2001 publication.\u00c2\u00a0 What’s up with James Madison rising?\u00c2\u00a0 Probably the same with Kennedy.<\/p>\n
The strange jumble in the third quarter of this list is curious, and I suppose I should just suspect a game of horse-shoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In case you’re curious, here’s the changes that were made with the Siena poll between 2002 and 2010. Abraham Lincoln.\u00c2\u00a0 Was #3.\u00c2\u00a0 Now is #2. Theodore Roosevelt.\u00c2\u00a0 Was #2.\u00c2\u00a0 Now is #3. Woodrow Wilson.\u00c2\u00a0 Was #6.\u00c2\u00a0 Now is #8. Harry Truman.\u00c2\u00a0 Was #7.\u00c2\u00a0 Now is #9. James Monroe.\u00c2\u00a0 Was #8.\u00c2\u00a0 Now is #7. James Madison.\u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6460,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions\/6460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}