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On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Jonathan King wrote:
This is not a scientific poll to say the very least, and, to be honest,
I don't know what status it should have.
I'm not sure what to think of it. It looks like they just put it out
there and told the historians to come and get it. They asked them to give
their professional affiliations, but they don't say that they checked on
all of them. If they didn't check, the poll isn't worth much.
That said, the results pretty much parallel his current unpopularity,
and history is not generally kind to unpopular presidents (Truman is one
of those exceptions that proves the rule).
An exception that proves a rule is something like "no parking on Sundays"
which proves that the rule is "park here anytime, but not on Sundays."
Mike
So, out of 109 historians, only 2 would place the Bush presidency in
the upper two-thirds of US presidencies. You can see the questions
here:
http://hnn.us/articles/47918.html
Amazingly, 61% ranked GW Bush as dead last -- the worst US President
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