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I expect the rankings would be too subjective for credibility. Joel Send a noteboard - 02/09/2012 04:27:32 PM
Like, get an average of the more rigorous/sensibly-sourced rankings of Presidents. See which voting record, the popular vote or the electoral vote, has the least amount of error were we to try to use them to reproduce that ranking. Hmm, but that doesn't work because the electoral college has loyalties to the popular vote on a state-by-state basis.

Though not because of the "vast left-wing conspiracy" below referenced. Ranking the presidents is just inherently subjective, influenced by proximity as much as partisanship. And, yes, with rare exception, the electoral college just amplifies the popular vote so Lincoln, Wilson, Clinton etc. get the majority constitutionally required.
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Anybody here ever studied the founding fathers of America? Dark Knight - 30/08/2012 07:34:28 PM 966 Views
Slave-owning, mysoginist, wig-wearing members of the landed elite? Bored - 30/08/2012 07:51:33 PM 711 Views
Ha! Yeah, all personal faults aside Dark Knight - 30/08/2012 07:54:13 PM 644 Views
Not John Adams or Alexander Hamilton.....fool! *NM* Anonymous2000 - 31/08/2012 05:18:05 AM 366 Views
No, never, not even briefly. Joel - 30/08/2012 07:57:39 PM 734 Views
What? Nooooo way Dark Knight - 30/08/2012 08:06:30 PM 725 Views
My US history class was an hour long and I always got distracted by a butterfly or something. Joel - 30/08/2012 08:50:39 PM 676 Views
Did you just kinda compare yourself to the founding fathers? nossy - 30/08/2012 08:08:40 PM 761 Views
Not positively, but I have often thought they were a bad influence on me. Joel - 30/08/2012 08:21:48 PM 748 Views
Funny, my reaction to sentences like those is nearly the opposite. Legolas - 30/08/2012 08:11:34 PM 698 Views
Fair point; it is revealing that none of the Bill of Rights amendments have multiple sections. Joel - 30/08/2012 08:39:24 PM 779 Views
You're projecting. *NM* Ghavrel - 31/08/2012 12:48:12 AM 329 Views
I am aspiring. Joel - 31/08/2012 01:09:40 AM 845 Views
As a personal aside ... Nate - 31/08/2012 01:43:45 AM 773 Views
Yes. nossy - 31/08/2012 01:49:41 AM 792 Views
Like I say, maybe I invest too much in online posting. Joel - 31/08/2012 02:02:58 AM 846 Views
Re: Nate - 31/08/2012 02:27:00 AM 801 Views
Re: Re: Joel - 31/08/2012 02:37:35 AM 809 Views
Well nossy - 31/08/2012 02:54:25 AM 818 Views
It does get repetitive too often. Joel - 31/08/2012 05:07:41 AM 824 Views
Doesn't really matter. You're gonna keep doing it. nossy - 31/08/2012 05:16:23 AM 757 Views
Maybe.... Joel - 31/08/2012 05:03:11 PM 800 Views
Re: Maybe.... nossy - 31/08/2012 05:15:52 PM 617 Views
Re: Maybe.... Joel - 31/08/2012 06:18:32 PM 766 Views
You aren't Plato, Burke, or Madison. Ghavrel - 31/08/2012 10:34:22 AM 726 Views
That is why it is aspiration rather than equivalence. Joel - 31/08/2012 05:01:20 PM 688 Views
I'm not so sure you're entirely right. nossy - 30/08/2012 11:06:39 PM 861 Views
I did. They smelled of mahogany and death. They looked scabby and skeletal. TaskmasterJack - 31/08/2012 12:35:44 AM 755 Views
Sounds like you have a job to do. Joel - 31/08/2012 01:11:10 AM 748 Views
Don't forget Hamilton! The creator of the American economy..... *NM* Anonymous2000 - 31/08/2012 05:19:50 AM 379 Views
... and big government. Joel - 01/09/2012 01:54:20 PM 634 Views
I don't really buy that..... Anonymous2000 - 01/09/2012 08:33:28 PM 693 Views
Hamilton loudly and often advocated a central bank, national debt and active federal government. Joel - 01/09/2012 08:41:50 PM 896 Views
I think the entire Age of Enlightenment is fascinating random thoughts - 31/08/2012 06:32:23 PM 663 Views
You realize you just made a great argument for intelligentsia rule, right? Joel - 01/09/2012 01:48:58 PM 756 Views
I would want better intelligenstia first random thoughts - 01/09/2012 02:48:28 PM 834 Views
Ah, the old uneducated>miseducated argument. Joel - 01/09/2012 03:39:07 PM 774 Views
*wonders if we could test* Burr - 02/09/2012 02:45:10 PM 659 Views
no there is a better reason why it wouldn't work random thoughts - 02/09/2012 02:58:18 PM 810 Views
No,no, I was wondering if -we- could test it. Burr - 03/09/2012 04:17:11 PM 707 Views
yeah I am a bit of a cynic *NM* random thoughts - 04/09/2012 03:01:28 PM 336 Views
I expect the rankings would be too subjective for credibility. Joel - 02/09/2012 04:27:32 PM 797 Views
I listen to some of supposed intellectuals talk and I am unimpressed random thoughts - 02/09/2012 02:53:21 PM 693 Views
Being well read does not make one smart, but does facilitate it to a great degree. Joel - 02/09/2012 04:32:05 PM 647 Views
I like the Starship Trooper approach random thoughts - 02/09/2012 05:04:17 PM 755 Views
I run very hot and cold on that one. Joel - 02/09/2012 06:28:44 PM 848 Views
The problem I'd have with that draft for votes idea... Burr - 03/09/2012 04:28:34 PM 767 Views
I am not so sure it would. Joel - 03/09/2012 05:45:39 PM 810 Views
What was that again about "you have a right to your own opinion, not your own facts"? Legolas - 03/09/2012 06:39:01 PM 823 Views
Ah, right; I had forgotten our previous discussion of conscriptions termination in the '90s and '00s Joel - 03/09/2012 06:48:28 PM 745 Views
If you worked with more engineers you might change your opinion on the science degree part random thoughts - 04/09/2012 03:00:16 PM 695 Views
Maybe; I would likely just conclude horse sense is uncommon everywhere, but less so in engineers. Joel - 05/09/2012 12:11:58 AM 614 Views
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