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« on: June 06, 2015, 08:39:43 PM »
In terms of the history books, there has always been a general consensus that every President between Jackson and Lincoln was either mediocre or a failure. Yet in recent years, of those Presidents, James K. Polk has undergone something of a 'comeback' in a sense, in that his Presidency is being re-evaluated as a success, marking him as the one great President between Jackson and Lincoln.

What do you guys think? Is James Polk generally underrated, or was he medicore?
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« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2015, 08:55:17 PM »
Overrated if anything.
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« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2015, 09:01:55 PM »
No. Polk was an imperialist who appeased slave owners.
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« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2015, 09:16:05 PM »
I think he was a success in the context of his time, and I thought he'd always been rated highly.
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« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2015, 09:37:44 PM »
No, he's often considered the best one-term president.
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« Reply #5 on: June 06, 2015, 09:55:24 PM »
Actually, the OP couldn't be more wrong in his assessment of how Polk has been viewed.  He's traditionally been ranked as one of the better presidents, usually at the bottom of the top quartile or the top of the second quartile.  His reputation has taken a dive in the last few surveys, but it remains to be seen if that's anything more than a statistical blip. He consistently rates as one of the best Presidents to serve a single term, with only Kennedy marginally better in the rankings. It's a shame ill health kept him from reconsidering his single term pledge. It would have been interesting to see how he dealt with the results of his war.
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« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2015, 09:56:38 PM »
Definitely yes.
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« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2015, 10:18:27 PM »
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« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2015, 10:29:09 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: June 07, 2015, 11:00:02 AM »
This.
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« Reply #10 on: June 07, 2015, 11:09:47 AM »
He's underrated by Atlas, and I assume that's what you're talking about, sock.
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« Reply #11 on: June 07, 2015, 01:10:12 PM »
Most people pretty inexplicably rank him significantly higher than Buchanan and Pierce, so obvobviously not.
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« Reply #12 on: June 07, 2015, 01:15:02 PM »
Only if you find waging wars to expand the potential amount of land to be held for the purposes of human bondage is 'underrated'
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