Biased Polls -- College Professors Supposedly Too Liberal, Anti-Reagan

I'm curious why you or anyone else would put Andrew Jackson in the top 10 presidents in our history. Please read up on Jackson's response to Worcester vs. Georgia, the Indian Removal Act, and the Trail of Tears and then try and say with a straight face that Jackson was one of our country's greatest leaders. I'm not even Native American, and I find that sentiment incredibly offensive.

College professors are liberals. Hmm. This is a news flash?

Of course a professor is going to denounce something he does not agree with

I am surprised the number was that low.

"Supposedly Too Liberal"?????????????

WHAT KIND OF MORE ON WROTE THAT?????????????

1.FDR. 2JFK 3.Thomas Jefferson 4.Teddy Roosevelt 5.Dight Eisenhower 6. Abraham Lincoln 7.Woodrow Wilson 8. James Madison 9.Andrew Jackson 10. Lyndon Johnson.....Reagen is like in the 30's.

If you don't like the results of your poll, don't ask your fool questions!

Why is Reagan's being rated in the "top 10" even important? I think he was the beginning of the end for the middle class with his policies of deregulation, union busting, "trickle down" and "supply side" economics, and wasted money on the "War on Drugs".

eh, like usual its just a poll designed to tell people "you were right all along". Its just a feel-good thing, not based on any kind of reality.

yea - we should all revere ronnie -
just don't pay attention to his gun/missiles to iran for hostages & lying about it then getting caught - or his cocaine smuggling for the money to overthrow sovereign govts -
or abandoning our dead marines in the middle east - or claiming to end communism when it collapsed on its own -
reagan was a brain dead clown that raised taxes & had worse stats than most presidents
just a grade C actor that appealed to the brain dead voters that confuse fantasy with reality -
it goes along with the xian cult worshippers philosophy of supreme beings !
hero worship of sorts !!

There are not enough schools teaching finance, accounting and business law. Far too many teaching sociology, psychology and pottery making.

hmmm.. wonder what this commenter history professor ranks woodrow wilson, fdr, and the great society man himself lbj? Id like to bet this is one of those uber college profesors himself, prolly places the racist wilson higher than Ronald like they all seem to.. but they wont mention how racist wilson was in their giddyness to extoll how great he was.. unbiased my #$%$..who are ten.. lincoln, washington.. if you say jfk then you gotta place ron in there because he finished what jfk continued with the soviet union. Or does finally taking care of that not rate in the top ten? seeing how the vietnam war escalated and the great society has failed.. lbj should not be anywhere near the top ten list. So who are the top ten better than ron..fdr did the exact same thing the mesiah has done, prolonged the depression. (do you wonder why we had two mini depressions in the 20;s they dont teach anymore.. of course not, we got out of those quickly and republican presidents were over those depressions we only teach how great fdr was..)

I am a conservative and educated and an educator. I believe in paying my bills and that one does not live off borrowed moeny and that is what makes me a conservative. Ronald Reagen was FACTUALY a borrow and spend president and that makes him fiscally irresponsible. I can easly name a lot better presidents than that based on conservative creteria. This poll is not measuringg the quaitiy of the president Reagen but insted the gap in the correct use of the word consevative.

I've seen plenty of uneducated, smart people. Your education doesn't start or stop at your school's front door. You want to get more education? Read. It's all around you. If people aren't educating themselves, it's their own #$%$ fault.

I've always been amused by the concept of RR as a conservative. He was deeply involved in union activities as an actor. He lived through the same California dream as the Brown family. He was Hollywood all the way. As POTUS he oversaw a huge expansion of government and held sway by virtue of personality not substance. He surrounded himself with conservatives, but made decisions based on personal beliefs. As a Michigan Republican, I'm used to this kind of 'conservative'. George Romney was a RINO, as he had to be to get elected in a union state, and Mitt will have to be to get elected this year. You just can't beat the media at their own game, learned when they beat Nixon against JFK and threw away Goldwater with one TV ad.

Survey shows that college professors are indeed smart ones, and most people are dummies.

Ronald Reagan is a hero to some and the devil to others. People who have studied history (like myself) who attended college during the Reagan years (like myself) and consider the impact that Reagan and his policies had on urban America and the polarizing of minority groups will not view him as "great" or "wonderful," but as a very outspoken racist with a lot of contempt for the working class and unions. Others who were unaffected by his racism and right-wing policies will remember him for the fall of the Berlin Wall and his nostalgic appeal to middle America for a "return" to "the way things were," (ie.before civil rights and the women's movement and the anti-war demonstrations of the previous decades) It wasn't until I saw Michael Moore's documentary "Sicko" that I learned how very afraid a young Reagan really was that communists were going to take over America (starting with the Screen Actor's Guild,apparently) and how he recorded a phonographic record extolling the evils of "socialized medicine," (which was actually a very good description of America's HMO's (before Obama's new rules) rather than Europe or Canada's socialized health care system, btw) Conservatives have always believed that the civil rights movement, (with it's underlying principle of the equality of the races) was a "communist inspired" movement. Reagan too believed that Dr. King, and other civil rights leaders were communist, even though King was a Christian minister, which would seem to contradict the atheism of communism. It is no wonder that when the whole world was appealing for the end of the wicked apartheid system in South Africa, and for US sanctions, Reagan could not have cared less, those ANC folks were communists too. Reagan was more comfortable supporting fascist dictatorships in South Africa, the Phillippines, and Haiti, than the democratic movements struggling to overthrow them.

"For the last 30 years he's been in a dream world.... I think he actually believes that giving more to rich people will make them work harder, whereas the only way to make poor people work is to tax their unemployment benefits."
--NAACP executive director Benjamin Hooks commenting on Reagan's economic policies, January 25, 1983

"Reagan, who more than any president in history railed against government benefits and spending, set the standard for all members of his administration. In addition to his presidential pension of $99,500 a year for life and his annual pension as a former governor of California of $30,800...he received Secret Service protection from forty full-time agents and other security at a cost to the government estimated at $10 million annually, more than double that of other living presidents. A suite of offices atop a new thirty-four-story office building twenty minutes from his home, commanding a view that extended from the Pacific Ocean to the towers of downtown Los Angeles, cost the government $173,000 a year to lease."
--Haynes Johnson, Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years

Of course, what is the value of a public opinion pool about historical events. It is well know that the general public lacks respect towards knowledge (at least the half of the population that are below average and maybe a little more than half0. Knowledge about History and other disciplines is gained by going to school... studying.. not drinking and partying... so even among the people who went to college that information might be missing. Thus, no wonder, a poll about the best president might be misleading. It is like asking the general public what they think about nuclear energy, dinosaurs, evolution, ghosts, big foot, UFOs. You will get an opinion but mostly an uninformed opinion.