Show of Hands

What about Buchanan, Johnson, or Pierce? Those guys were atrocious

Doing nothing positive is not nearly as bad as doing many things that are negative.

Fair enough

This whole thing is for fifth place. Once a president is put into the rankings, it starts all over. Johnson and Buchanan haven't won anything, it was just their turn to go against the current winners (John Adams and FDR)

Okay but I've seen the same guys lose over and over again but I haven't seen a president from the 20th century in a long time

Ritter's not redoing any matchups, so we won't see people from after Roosevelt until Roosevelt wins.

Ok, the last time you saw those guys lose was when we were finding out who was fourth place. Now we're finding out who is fifth place, so we start all over without the guys we put in the top four. The reason you haven't seen any presidents from the 20th century is because FDR beat all of them and Teddy Roosevelt beat FDR. Therefore, we had to pit those two against everyone in the 18th and 19th century before we pit anyone else against each other. Once FDR is put into the rankings, we will start over and we will start with the first president that FDR beat (Eisenhower). Makes sense?

I'm pretty sure you're way off on the unemployment numbers for Roosevelt.

herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1510

research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M0892BUSM156SNBR

www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104719.html

Here are three sources substantiating the claim.

Oh true, my bad. I was only thinking of the Depression years.

It was totally because of WW2 though, not the New Deal.

I agree with you, I just thought the unemployment rate was a good way to quickly summarize his role in the Great Depression. He may not have decreased it THAT much, but he decreased it a ton.