Some years ago, Michael Kanell and I wrote a book called Presimetrics in which we tried to quantify the performance of Presidents along a range of issues objectively, using numbers. But what if we want a single measure of a Presidents performance? Put another way – how do we know whether a President was a success or a failure? I was born when Nixon was in office, though admittedly, I wasn’t paying all that much attention to politics at the time. But if I had...
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