Obama ranked 12th best president by historians in new C-SPAN poll
Just weeks after leaving the White House, President Barack Obama ranks as the 12th best U.S. president overall in a new poll of historians conducted by C-SPAN ahead of Presidents Day.
It’s the first time Obama was eligible for the Presidential historians Survey, which asked 91 historians to rank all 43 former presidents across 10 categories. Those include “Pursued Equal Justice for All,” in which Obama ranked 3rd, to “Relations with Congress,” in which he ranked 39th.
Abraham Lincoln retained his top spot for the third time in the poll, which debuted in 2000 and last took place in 2009. Other consistently high-ranking presidents include George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt, all of whom made the top five overall in each survey.
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WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 16: U.S. President Barack Obama waves goodbye at the conclusion of a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House December 16, 2016 in Washington, DC. In what could be the last press conference of his presidency, afterwards Obama will be leaving for his annual family vacation in Hawaii. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) (Photo: Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 16: U.S. President Barack Obama waves goodbye at the conclusion of a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House December 16, 2016 in Washington, DC. In what could be the last press conference of his presidency, afterwards Obama will be leaving for his annual family vacation in Hawaii. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) (Photo: Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images)





