Top of the Pops
John Rentoul writing in The Independent highlighted a recent opinion poll which asked Americans to name their 'best and worst Presidents since World War II.
Way pout in the lead, to the amazement of many people in the UK, are Ronald Reagan who came out top of the tops and Barack Obama who is stuck firmly at the bottom.
Nuggets and distractions that caught the 140-character attention span of our chief political commentator
1. The Quinnipac University poll surveyed Americans and asked them to name the best and worst presidents since the Second World War. Ronald Reagan followed by Bill Clinton and John Kennedy came out best; Barack Obama followed by George W Bush and Richard Nixon were most likely to be chosen as worst.
As is usual with such surveys, there is a strong bias, positive and negative, towards the more recent.
Andrew Cooper, who used to be David Cameron's pollster, said: "I'd like to do a focus group of the 2% of US voters who think Jimmy Carter was the best President since World War II."
Nuggets and distractions that caught the 140-character attention span of our chief political commentator
1. The Quinnipac University poll surveyed Americans and asked them to name the best and worst presidents since the Second World War. Ronald Reagan followed by Bill Clinton and John Kennedy came out best; Barack Obama followed by George W Bush and Richard Nixon were most likely to be chosen as worst.
As is usual with such surveys, there is a strong bias, positive and negative, towards the more recent.
Andrew Cooper, who used to be David Cameron's pollster, said: "I'd like to do a focus group of the 2% of US voters who think Jimmy Carter was the best President since World War II."
