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[The forty fourth president of the United States]: Most polarizing president in history?
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How about Franklin Pierce? Or Richard Nixon?
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The Gallup Poll people delivered an interesting report today: [The forty fourth president of the United States] was the most polarizing first-year president in history.
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Not Lincoln?
From Gallup.com. Source is
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Obama's Approval Most Polarized for First-Year President
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The article itself makes two points clear that the USA Today piece does not.
- The interval under discussion is after World War II, and not the whole of American history.
- The metrics under discussion are drawn from polling data. While these data provide important pieces of the picture, they do not give the entire portrait.
Then again, why bother checking facts and asking basic questions if you have a deadline to meet and a headline that is going to get people to click the hyperlink?