Most Think History Will Judge Ford as Average history How do you think each of president, the following above presidents will go down below in Outstanding/Above averag 2 Average Below average/Poor
A 54% majority of the American public said Ford would go down as an “average” president in a Gallup poll last year, while about equal shares thought history will remember him as outstanding or above average (21%) and below average or poor (19%).
A 2011 Pew Research poll asked adults to name the person who had done the best job as president over their lifetime. Less than 1 percent of adults named Ford, even when limited to those who were 18 or older during his presidency. No other president who had served since Herbert Hoover received fewer mentions (Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan topped the list at 34% and 25%, respectively).
Most Think History Will Judge Ford as Average  | history How do you think each of president, the following above presidents will go down below in  | history as you an outstanding average, president, following above poor? presidents average, average, go below  | average, or poor?  | Outstanding/Above averag 2 Average Below average/Poor  | Ronald Reagan  | 69  | 20  | 10  | Bill Clinton  | 60  | 28  | 12  | Barack Obama  | 26  | 38  | 35  | George H.W. Bush  | 35  | 44  | 20  | Jimmy Carter  | 25  | 34  | 38  | George W. Bush  | 25  | 28  | 47  | 54  | 19  | Gerald Ford  | 21  | Richard Nixon  | 14  | 28  | 55  | Source: Gallup February 2012  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 