The Popularity List

From NYT, Contmeplating Obama's Place in History.

This is the list I'm working from. The 43 men I'd like to know better. (Don't tell my husband)
Read the article as the author Nate Silver does a far better job of explaining it than I ever could.

Do I agree with all these rankings? Of course not! I'm already not a be fan of Woodrow Wilson. Nor do I idolize Kennedy or Reagan like some of the folks in the generation before me. What ever you think of George W. Bush is fine, but I think he should defiantly be ranked above about the likes of John Tyler. As presidents go, I admire the great ones but also take a liking to the overlooked and forgotten. The underdog presidents.

You probably don't agree with this list either. That's okay.

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. George Washington
4. Theodore Roosevelt
5. Thomas Jefferson
6. Harry Truman
7. Woodrow Wilson
8. Dwight D. Eisenhower
9. John F. Kennedy
10. Ronald Reagan
11. James K. Polk
12. Lyndon B. Johnson
13. Andrew Jackson
14. James Monroe
15. James Madison
16. John Adams
17. Barack Obama
18. Bill Clinton
19. William McKinley
20. John Quincy Adams
21. Grover Cleveland
22. George H.W. Bush
23. Ulysses S. Grant
24. Gerald Ford
25. William Howard Taft
26. Jimmy Carter
27. Calvin Coolidge
28. Chester A. Arthur
29. Richard Nixon
30. James A. Garfield
31. Martin Van Buren
32. Rutherford B. Hayes
33. Zachary Taylor
34. Benjamin Harrison
35. Herbert Hoover
36. John Tyler
37. Millard Fillmore
38. George W. Bush
39. Andrew Johnson
40. William Henry Harrison
41. Warren G. Harding
42. Franklin Pierce
43. James Buchanan