Awaz Apni

Who is overrated in the Siena College survey of presidents? There are a few ways of going about this.  I'll start with an easy one: who rates significantly higher in the Siena study than in other, more or less similar, surveys of experts ?  Start right at the top.  Well, almost at the top: #2, Teddy Roosevelt.  Sienna moves him from #3 to #2 this year, but every other recent survey has him 4th or 5th.  Siena loves the last two Virginians, Madison (#6) and Monroe(#7); the 2009 C-SPAN survey was much more typical, placing Monroe at 14th and Madison 20th.  I don't know why they do better in Siena, but for Madison especially that's consistent going back to the original Siena survey in 1982, when he ranked 9th.  Moving down the list, Bill Clinton is at 13, which is a bit higher than he's placed in other such studies.  What do I think?  I don't really get TR worship; successful president, yes, but top three material?  I don't see it at all, a...

Who is overrated in the Siena College survey of presidents? There are a few ways of going about this.  I'll start with an easy one: who rates significantly higher in the Siena study than in other, more or less similar, surveys of experts ?  Start right at the top.  Well, almost at the top: #2, Teddy Roosevelt.  Sienna moves him from #3 to #2 this year, but every other recent survey has him 4th or 5th.  Siena loves the last two Virginians, Madison (#6) and Monroe(#7); the 2009 C-SPAN survey was much more typical, placing Monroe at 14th and Madison 20th.  I don't know why they do better in Siena, but for Madison especially that's consistent going back to the original Siena survey in 1982, when he ranked 9th.  Moving down the list, Bill Clinton is at 13, which is a bit higher than he's placed in other such studies.  What do I think?  I don't really get TR worship; successful president, yes, but top three material?  I don't see it at all, a...