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The Hill published an article this week titled, “Poll: Obama tops list ranking best president in Americans' lifetime.”

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The article states that “ more than 40 percent of Americans say that Barack Obama was the best or second-best president in their lifetime, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center.”

It went on to say “the poll asked people in an open-ended format which president has done the best job in their lifetimes, using respondents' first and second choices for the survey's findings.”

“Forty-four percent of Americans said Obama was either the best or the second-best president in their lifetime, with 33 percent saying the same for Bill Clinton. Thirty-two percent said Ronald Reagan was the best or second-best president in their lifetime.”

I won’t bore you with the remainder of the article. The link will be posted at the bottom of the page.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Yesterday I decided to go see what these protests were all about <br><br>These protests weren’t about helping kids. This is about hating America and hating Trump <br><br>I’ve never seen a group of people with so much love for MS-13, ISIS, and law breaking illegals <br><br>Must watch!!<br><br>RT! <a href="https://t.co/GpHaXoFfME">pic.twitter.com/GpHaXoFfME</a></p>— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1013517885149413378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

My issue with this, and many articles like it, is that they are not only very skewed but the methodology isn’t spelled out. Oh, a link is provided if you want to dive in and review it yourself. How many people will do that, or opt to just read the title and skim the article?

I took the time to actually read the methodology because I knew that Obama was not and never will be the best we could muster as a President. He has bifurcated this county beyond all measures and I am not sure we will ever heal from it.

Methodology:

The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted June 5-12, 2018 among a national sample of 2,002 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (502 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 1,500 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 998 who had no landline telephone). The survey was conducted by interviewers under the direction of Abt Associates. A combination of landline and cell phone random digit dial samples were used; both samples were provided by Survey Sampling International, LLC. Interviews were conducted in English and Spanish. Respondents in the landline sample were selected by randomly asking for the youngest adult male or female who is now at home. Interviews in the cell sample were conducted with the person who answered the phone if that person was an adult eighteen years of age or older.

What this means: The average person taking the poll could only have remembered Obama being President. If the person was eighteen then he would have been around eight years old at the time Obama was elected. Eight-year-olds do not care about politics. The most common response to a question of “who do you think has done the best job as President” would be Obama since it is all they know.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">OH, that's a pretty EASY question. EVEN if the participants were in their mid-20's… they'd only remember two Presidents considering each held two terms. YUP, by default good 'ole Barry would be one of those two. Isn't' that called "stacking the deck"?</p>— ⚡️teve ️ippin (@Steve_Pippin) <a href="https://twitter.com/Steve_Pippin/status/1017383434241609728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

If you think there are people who actually don’t know anything about politics, watch these videos. Very enlightening.

{Video} Sad- College Students Don’t Know What Decade Reagan Was President:

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{Video} How Stupid are Millennials:

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{Video} The Common Sense Test:

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{Video} Millennials: The Dumbest Generation In History:

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{Video} Millennials vs Senior Citizens On Economic Inflation:

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{Video} Incest Embraced By Liberals:

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{Video} Liberals Love Trump’s Tax Plan When Told It’s Bernie Sanders Plan:

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After watching these videos myself it is easy to see that you could manipulate a millennial into giving you the answer you are looking for.

Please don’t be duped by fake polls. Look at the policies and how they affected our country. Compare apples to apples. Trump hasn’t even been in office for two years and has done more for our country than Obama did in eight.

Related Resources:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/poll-obama-tops-list-ranking-best-president-in-americans-lifetime/ar-AAzW3BA?ocid=st

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