Will Barack Obama be remembered as the Democrats' Nixon?

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Here's the thing about Obama's legacy.  To political scientist and such, he'll probably end up just ahead of the curve, probably around the 20 spot.  To historians, maybe a little higher to around the 15 spot.  BUT ... to the populous as a whole, we're probably looking at Obama being in the top 5 for at least the next 20 to 30 years, probably longer.  He'll probably be ranked as the greatest modern President for a good part of that.  There's no doubt that there will be schools and streets and such named after him, that he'll be a very popular ex-President, and when he dies it'll probably surpass the kind of attention in scope and size that Reagan got.  In a hundred years and more, he'll probably be one of the few Presidents that the general public will be able to name from this area.