Poll: Majority of Republicans think
Trump is a better president than Lincoln
Washington Examiner,
by
Tim Pearce
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
11/30/2019 7:25:52 AM
A majority of Republicans believe President Trump is a better leader than Abraham Lincoln, who guided the nation through the Civil War.
The Economist and YouGov conducted a poll from Nov. 24-26 of 1,500 American adults. In the wide-ranging poll, researchers asked Americans to compare Trump to past U.S. presidents.
Fifty-three percent of Republicans said that Trump is a better president than Lincoln. For Democrats and Independents, Lincoln is considered to have been the better president with 94% and 78%, respectively.
From new YouGov poll....
President Trump has certainly done more for states rights...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MOAB 11/30/2019 8:01:07 AM (No. 248995)
Absolutely he is by far the best President EVER!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
WI Cynic 11/30/2019 8:06:45 AM (No. 249004)
One president suspended habeus corpus and shut down opposition newspapers.
The other president has not.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Southron 11/30/2019 8:33:05 AM (No. 249023)
The Lincoln mythology went unquestioned for a long time but finally it is being exposed.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 11/30/2019 9:14:33 AM (No. 249053)
Of course he is. That Lincoln was so great is a myth.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
poliposter 11/30/2019 9:16:25 AM (No. 249055)
Do tell about the Lincoln mythology #4. I'm so curious about your information since I studied Lincoln fairly extensively in college.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 11/30/2019 9:24:23 AM (No. 249066)
There is no comparison except that both men were chosen for pivotal moments in the history of our country. Both were hated because they had to do what had to be done.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
pensom2 11/30/2019 10:02:54 AM (No. 249113)
There's no way to compare the two. Their respective societies and challenges were vastly different. The question makes no sense and should not have been asked. It's like asking, "Which is the better color--red or yellow?"
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 11/30/2019 10:15:04 AM (No. 249123)
I'm not sure how you can compare the two. Lincoln has been dead for over a century, and can only be viewed through the lense of history. Lincoln is a symbol, and probably means different things to different people. Also, now the door is open for the Trump-haters to say Trump is no Lincoln.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 11/30/2019 10:46:14 AM (No. 249154)
Well in a sense they're correct. Lincoln couldn't get rid of McClellan fast enough and only eventually found Grant. If you're performance is lacking with Trump, he wastes NO time in getting rid of you (see: Bolton). But other posters are correct too: apples and oranges.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
red1066 11/30/2019 12:14:12 PM (No. 249228)
Trump has indeed been a good president. Had the Republican Congress worked with him during his first two years in office, then I think one could argue that Trump could be called a great president so far. Trump will have another chance to be that great president after the 2020 election provided the Republicans can win back the house and increase seats in the senate, and that those republicans can work with Trump instead of fighting him. As for better than Lincoln, I'm not willing to go that far yet. If the majority of blacks vote for Trump and the republicans, then one might say that the second emancipation has occurred.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Troutgreen 11/30/2019 2:00:40 PM (No. 249294)
I'm an old man that remembers his grandparent's stories of their childhoods right after Mr. Lincoln's War of Aggression. And their stories of how the Reconstruction that followed cost Southern families their homes and means of earning a decent living for decades thereafter.
Lincoln was no Abolitionist, and he was no proponent of Emancipation. I'll put Trump's racial bona fides up against Lincoln's at any time. He has done more to protect our borders and up the 1st and 2nd Amendments than Lincoln ever did. He has more women in his administration than Lincoln, who had none.
No matter what Joe Biden says, we don't need truth over facts, and the myth makes a good story. But those pesky facts keep hanging around to make us uncomfortable. Trump is a chaos-causing disruption machine. Just what we need right now..
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 12/1/2019 11:16:47 AM (No. 249982)
Hard to compare from so long a time span. Events and expectations were so different. But Trump is doing a fabulous job, IMO, equal to or possibly even better than Reagan. Reagan was conned into giving the amnesty, a HUGE, horrible mistake which legalized millions of illegals, criminals who were stealing from Americans - rewarded with citizenship. A very, very bad idea. NEVER to be repeated, I hope.
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