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TDAS04
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« on: June 26, 2024, 07:38:06 PM »
1. Lincoln
2. TR
3. Grant
4. Eisenhower
5. Arthur
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« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2024, 09:05:09 PM »
1. Lincoln
2. Teddy Roosevelt
3. Eisenhower
4. Reagan
5. H.W. Bush
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« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2024, 09:14:27 PM »
« Edited: June 26, 2024, 09:20:16 PM by Ancestral Republican »
Lincoln
Grant
Arthur
B. Harrison
Garfield
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« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2024, 09:22:25 PM »
1. FDR
2. Truman
3. Polk
4. Clinton
5. Cleveland
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« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2024, 09:45:16 PM »
1. Lincoln
2. Grant
3. Roosevelt
4. Harrison
5. HW Bush
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« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2024, 10:49:39 PM »
Quote from: Ferguson97 on June 26, 2024, 09:45:16 PM
1. Lincoln
2. Grant
3. Roosevelt
4. Harrison
5. HW Bush

Why HW over Eisenhower
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« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2024, 11:08:22 PM »
Top 5 Republicans
Roosevelt
Lincoln
Taft
Eisenhower
Reagan

Top 5 Democrats
Truman
Johnson
Roosevelt
Carter
Van Buren
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« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2024, 02:03:02 PM »
1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Theodore Roosevelt
3. Dwight D. Eisenhower
4. Ulysses S. Grant
5. Gerald Ford (personally would be my number two here)
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« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2024, 02:36:32 PM »
1. Eisenhower
2. Lincoln
3. HW Bush
4. Nixon (criminally underrated POTUS)
5. TR
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« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2024, 03:10:04 PM »
1. Lincoln
2. TR
3. Grant
4. Ike
5. Garfield
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« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2024, 04:01:00 PM »
1. Lincoln.
2. Theodore Roosevelt.
3. Eisenhower.
4. Grant.
5. McKinley?
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« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2024, 06:36:48 PM »
1. Lincoln
2. T. Roosevelt
3. Eisenhower
4. Ford
5. Grant
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« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2024, 05:07:20 PM »
« Edited: June 28, 2024, 05:12:55 PM by Blue3 »
Answers may be more interesting if we said  20th century onwards.

But for now:
-Lincoln
-HW (due to handling of the end of the Cold War & Soviet Union, mostly, with big downsides of the people he surrounded himself with who pushed hyperpartisanship and social conservatism and neoconservatism beyond his term)
-Ford (due to being harmless, mostly, with the big downside of the pardon)
-Teddy (due to more progressive ideas, though very problematic views too)
-one of the Reconstruction presidents, not sure who

Hoover and Coolidge seemed decent enough people, but we know how they led into the Great Depression.
Maybe Taft was relatively harmless?
Could also make the case for Eisenhower, he'd be higher before (maybe as high as #2 for me), but then there's his handling of Iran 1953 and inflaming of certain Cold War incidents and Iran in particularly has had horrendous rippling effects while also being just an unneeded bad decision at the time.

Really, it goes
-Lincoln
-any other Republican president (even Reagan is flexible somewhat in this cloud, but usually closer to the bottom)
-Nixon/Bush43/Trump (yes, Nixon had some good policies and led some breakthroughs... but there's all that bad.)
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« Reply #13 on: June 28, 2024, 09:54:42 PM »
Lincoln
T. Roosevelt
Grant
Garfield (mainly for what he represents)
Eisenhower
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