Reader Responses February 16, 2011

SURVEY SAYS: Who is Your Favorite US President?

February 17, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Now, realizing that there is often a difference between the kind of people you might want to sit down with and share a cold one – and, shall we say, “other” criteria, this week I also asked readers who was their favorite US president. 
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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!

 

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