You gotta be fricking kidding me.
Yahoo News: America Names Ronald Reagan Their Greatest American
America has chosen Ronald Reagan as its greatest American. Throughout Discovery Channel’s GREATEST AMERICAN campaign, more than three million votes were cast via aol.com/greatestamerican, text and toll-free numbers to name the person who America thinks most influenced the way we think, work and live.
When voting closed at 9:10 (ET) during the series’ live finale, Ronald Reagan was named the winner with Abraham Lincoln running a close second.
His son, Ron Jr, hinted that his father’s recent death may have helped swing the vote, I think that’s probably correct. Whatever you personal views about Reagan he did have a considerable effect on the US and the world but was his contribution to America greater than that of Lincoln or Washington.
I think this BBC survey from a couple of years ago is much more to my taste.
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