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A18
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« on: July 04, 2005, 07:56:07 PM »
Would you say each of these presidents was while he was in office, on a scale of 1 to 5, the most popular being 5?

Might need to divide some presidencies into different time periods...

William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
William Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
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A18
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E: 9.23, S: -6.35
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2005, 08:29:20 PM »
I read Coolidge was very popular.
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A18
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« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2005, 09:13:35 PM »
McKinley did win re-election. Or do you mean for a third term?
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A18
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« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2005, 02:39:47 PM »
Quote from: J. J. on July 04, 2005, 09:09:15 PM
A healthy Wilson is a question mark; could he have won in 1920?  Very possibly.

Um, Wilson would have been crushed. It was his unpopularity and voter opposition to the League of Nations that ushered in the Republican 1920s.
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A18
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« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2005, 10:14:30 PM »
Uh, Bob/Goldwater is not Australian.
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A18
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« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2005, 02:21:08 PM »
How do historians measure the popularity of presidents? Were there any kind of reliable polls?
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A18
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E: 9.23, S: -6.35
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2005, 06:28:44 PM »
Uh, what people think means little? We're talking about popularity here.
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A18
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« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2005, 07:02:32 PM »
What was the first executive written budget?

What you list are the REASONS they were popular, but public opinion is the actual popularity.
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A18
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« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2005, 07:09:02 PM »
If McKinley was so popular, how come he never got more than 52% of the vote?

That's why you need poll numbers to confirm that he was popular.
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A18
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« Reply #9 on: July 07, 2005, 07:26:04 PM »
Quote from: Senator PBrunsel on July 07, 2005, 07:11:43 PM
Quote from: Sic semper tyrannis on July 07, 2005, 07:09:02 PM
If McKinley was so popular, how come he never got more than 52% of the vote?

That's why you need poll numbers to confirm that he was popular.

First of all no polling was done back then, or at least noticable polling.

Second of all, McKinley was very popular due to a popular war and he won the greatest Republican landslide since 1864 in 1900.

If 52% is a landslide, what is not a landslide?

McKinley did better in the electoral college, but in the popular vote, Grant did way better.

EDIT: I take that back. Grant did way better in the electoral college too.
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A18
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« Reply #10 on: July 07, 2005, 10:11:47 PM »
Polls reflect the national mood. What do you base his popularity on? The election results don't confirm it, although they would indicate he was perhaps more popular than past, then-recent presidents.
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A18
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« Reply #11 on: July 10, 2005, 09:53:58 PM »
How do you know what the national mood was?
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