Poll: Obama worst president since WWII

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Comments

[beoweasel]

...why do I get the feeling that the majority of the people polled were white republicans?

[moonbladem]

LOL that thought did cross my mind as I was reading the article.

[offside_element]

That's my feeling as well :/.

[oldruggedspork]

Just...my thoughts exactly.

Also below, deadsong said: "Obama is the one directly affecting everyone's lives right now, so it's easy to blame Obama[...]"

[jslayeruk]

I'm always surprised that Nixon is rated so badly. I was convinced that history would judge him less harshly, and yet we don't seem far enough away for people to be more objective about him.

[oldruggedspork]

There has been a rumor around that he hit Pat(Mrs. Nixon of course). Maybe I need to look at Snopes, but it does click with the thinking of the times for a lot of straight, white Republicans.

His successes tended to be things like bettering relations with China, I think, rather than what he did for America at home.

[angelus7988]

Don't forget the EPA.

[oldruggedspork]

Er, I did forget, completely. I think I remember it from an emotional point of view, through my mother's eyes. She just couldn't stand his attitude, said it was pompous.

Thanks to you, my opinion of him went up a few points.

[deadsong]

I can't help but think it's hard to conduct a poll like this without bias, because of the human tendency to always think the grass is always greener on the other side, etc. Obama is the one directly affecting everyone's lives right now, so it's easy to blame Obama, especially when he's been locked in a stalemate with the Republicans for years while things get progressively worse (and I can't help but wonder what a poll would say about what people think of oh, say, Boehner). I'm not saying Obama's great or anything, but people have a tendency to exaggerate their current problem as the worst ever while minimizing previous problems that have already passed. It makes me think of memory suppression after childbirth, where the mind minimizes the pain as "not that bad" or very few would go through it again--until it's happening again and suddenly yes, it is very much that bad, thank you very much. It's something humans do with a lot of unpleasant experiences.

ETA something I could have sworn I typed, but apparently imagined doing so.

[cindyanne1]

These are my thoughts on the whole thing

[rubygloomrox]

I think there is more to what happened with getting ACA passed than even he expected, but I think people are reacting from an emotional place, and so are more likely to see him as a liar and a fraud. I still believe he was a better choice than Romney, and I still cringe at the thought of McCain and Palin.

[lurkerwisp]

Some of us are also feeling a direct impact in other ways. My husband's job is in sleep medicine. Thanks to the ACA, cost cutting measures that wouldn't have even been considered before are becoming the norm. ACA reforms are working to push more studies to be done as at-home tests and all but eliminate his job as a lab tech - even though the at-home tests can't even tell if a person is actually asleep or not. Thankfully he's still needed for titrating complex cases and testing for narcolepsy

[mastadge]

Reagan is the best? People really have no sense of context or consequences, do they?

[emofordino]

that was my first thought when I saw it, which made me instantly disregard everything else that was said by those people who were polled, tbh

[shoujokakumei]

My thoughts exactly.

[lied_ohne_worte]

Didn't he singlehandedly bring down the Berlin Wall?