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SURVEY SAYS: Who is Your Favorite US President?
And, sure enough, there were differences.
Once again, I’ll dispense with listing the no votes. That brings us to the US Presidents that were “cited, but not by many”:
Andrew Jackson
William Henry Harrison
Millard Fillmore
Grover Cleveland
Theodore Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
The “second tier” favorites included:
5.7% - Thomas Jefferson
5.0% - Harry Truman
3.6% - John Adams
As for the top five favorite US Presidents,
#5 was John F. Kennedy, chosen by 6.4%
#4 was George Washington, chosen by 6.7%
Coming in at #3 was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with 10.7%.
#2 on the list of favorites – an all the more impressive showing since he was also the top of the “most want to have a cold beverage with” list – was Abraham Lincoln, cited by 22.1%
But top of our readers most favorite US President list was… Ronald Reagan, cited by a full 24.3%.
Thanks to everyone who participated in our survey!