I feel that the best way to evaluate something is by comparison. Since I am trying to answer the question of why Ohio's presidents are so bad, I should first discover where they are ranked in history compared to all the other presidents, and then delve into why some of these presidents are so highly ranked compared to others. The source I will use for this is wikipedia. The poll I have located on wikipedia is a combination of a wide variety of polls from abc polls, to rasmussen reports, to gallup polls, strongly democrat polls, strongly republican polls, and other various polls and calculated the overall rankings of the presidents based on this wide variety of information. Barack Obama will not appear in this poll as he hasn't fulfilled his term yet.
1.Abraham Lincoln(R)
2.Franklin Roosevelt(D)
3.George Washington(No Party)
4.Thomas Jefferson(DR)
5.Theodore Roosevelt(R)
6.Woodrow Wilson(D)
7.Harry Truman(D)
T8.Dwight Eisenhower(R)
T8.Andrew Jackson(D)
10.James Polk(D)
11.John Kennedy(D)
12.John Adams(Federalist)
13.James Madison(DR)
T14.James Monroe(DR)
T14.Lyndon Johnson(D)
16.Ronald Reagan(R)
17.John Quincy Adams(DR)
18.Grover Cleveland(D)
T19.Bill Clinton(D)
T19.William McKinley(R)
T21.George Bush Sr.(R)
T21.William Taft(R)
23.Martin Van Buren(D)
24.Rutherford B. Hayes(R)
25.Gerald Ford(R)
26.Jimmy Carter(D)
27.Chester Arthur(R)
T28.Herbert Hoover(R)
T28.James Garfield(R)
30.Calvin Coolidge(R)
31.Richard Nixon(R)
32.Benjamin Harrison(R)
33.George Bush Jr.(R)
34.Zach Taylor(Whig)
35.John Tyler(Whig)
36.Ulysses S. Grant(R)
T37.William Harrison(Whig)
T37.Millard Filmore(Whig)
39.Franklin Pierce(D)
40.Andrew Johnson(D)
41.James Buchanan(D)
42.Warren G. Harding(R)
What stands out to me is that Ohio has given the United States the worst president in it's history and 3 of the worst 7 presidents.
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