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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
dc_dux, while I'm certain that the GMU was conducted in a scientific manner, I don't see how "historians" are any better able to label this presidency a success or failure when it's still going on. Historians spend entire careers breaking down the minutia of events of a presidency to understand how it worked. That information isn't available yet, so those asked could only be working from the same information that the rest of us have. They aren't in any better position to make a judgement on this presidency than the mythical "man in the street". Also, if they asked my Russian History professors, half of those folks are going to be lucky to remember who the current president is, let alone tell you if he's doing a good job or not. Yet they're still "historians" even though both of my advisors only had minimal understandings of American history. Sorry, but you're citing something that can only be a garbage survey.
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Jazz....If you look at my posts, you will see that I agree that the GMU survey has no more value than this TFP poll by offering comparisons to previous presidents based on biased benchmarks.
The only current, real-time measure of a president that judges success or failure at even a base level are job approval ratings/polls.....and this president's ratings reflect a national opinion that differs by a large majority from the rosy performance assessment offered by ace and mike.
