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People, Personas, and Politics 12 – Worst Presidents Ever Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner March 31, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: If I’m right about Buchanan, and I have to look it up, Buchanan is the worst president, not including Trump because he has only been president for a few weeks. But among presidents that we know, Buchanan probably has the worst, Harding is second worst, and George W. Bush is third worst. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What about projecting forward to the next election? What might be the popular reaction and, therefore, vote results in the 2020 election? Also, the possible candidates that might come up. RR: Trump has been under wat for all but 3 or so days of his presidency. That is, his disapproval rating is currently at 54%. His approval rating is at 40%. So he’s 14% under water. 14% more people disapprove than approve of his presidency. He’s had more disapproval than approval for 63 out of 66 days. All but the first few days of his presidency. With such a low approval, it’s hard to get re-elected. But presidents have had low approval ratings before and have managed to eke out victories, or even somewhat strong victories, as their approval ratings momentarily pop up during an election. George W. Bush, managed to get re-elected even after being in a—after he ramped up the war or ramped up the threat of terror around the election, and people were scared and voted to keep him on. Obama had ratings in the 40s for much of his first administration, and managed to pop up his approval above 50% long enough to get re-elected. Then he dropped back down into the 40s for much of presidency, then his approval rose up into the 50s and ended at 61 as people saw what was coming and had premature nostalgia. So right now, Trump is doing terrible. But he may hang on, We’re waiting to see how tainted he is by Russian meddling in the election. How much he knew, how much his people colluded with Russia, that may take him down. But that may not because it is a Republican Congress, and they are trying to cover his butt. Even though Trump seems obviously terrible to most of the US population, he may still or may survive 4 years and manage to get re-elected. And that could lead to even more terribleness. He doesn’t seem to exercise much restraint now. But he does worry about being re-elected because he is already running 2020 election rallies, which is unprecedented. But as a lame duck, as someone who is not worried about being re-elected in a second Trump term, he might be even crazier than he is now. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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AuthorAccording to semi-reputable sources, Rick Rosner has the world’s second-highest IQ. He earned 12 years of college credit in less than a year and graduated with the equivalent of 8 majors. He has received 8 Writer’s Guild Award and Emmy nominations, and was named 2013 North American Genius of the Year by The World Genius Registry. He has written for Remote Control, Crank Yankers, The Man Show, The Emmy Awards, The Grammy Awards, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He has also worked as a stripper, a bouncer, a roller-skating waiter, and a nude model. In a TV commercial, Domino’s Pizza named him the World’s Smartest Man.He was also named Best Bouncer in the Denver Area by Westwood Magazine. He spent the disco era as an undercover high school student. 25 years as a bar bouncer, American fake ID-catcher, 25+ years as a stripper, and nude art model, and nearly 30 years as a writer for more than 2,500 hours of network television. He lost on Jeopardy!, sued Who Wants to Be a Millionaire over a bad question, and lost the lawsuit. He spent 35+ years on a modified version of Big Bang Theory. Now, he mostly sits around tweeting in a towel. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and daughter. You can send an email or a direct message via Twitter, or find him on LinkedIn. ArchivesCategories |