There were no great conservative Presidents.

[edhopper]

And that is why Regan won the poll for "Greatest President".
If you are a liberal or progressive you might vote for any number of Presidents, From Jefferson to Lincoln to Teddy and FDR, or maybe Kennedy. All good choices. And so the votes are spread among a number of candidates.
But if you are a conservative, especially a modern Tea Party Repub. Well all you got is Regan, so he gets 19%.
Clearly most Americans would not call him great, or put him into the same field as those that were.
He simply got more votes because of the concentration of votes by the wingnuts.

[Jack Rabbit]

1. But, to quoth KO . . .

"Reagan was a lousy president."

[louis-t]

4. "...and now he's dead."

[LLStarks]

2. No love for Eisenhower? nt

[edhopper]

3. The man who

sent the National Guard to Little Rock and warned about the Military Industrial Complex?
He was no conservative, by today's standards, he was liberal.

[madrchsod]

5. the present day republicans never ever mention ike

yes..ike would never be nominated for a dog catcher in today`s republican party.

[el_bryanto]

6. Two responses

1. Of course there are no great conservative presidents; conservatives by definition try to stop things from happening - try to take things backwords. That's not to say they are always wrong, but it's never very heroic standing in the way of progress.

2. People genuinely do have a lot of affection for Reagan and not just tea-partiers.

Bryant

[edhopper]

7. Affection sure.

He was a likable man. But he was a god-awful President.