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Dankdude · #7 05-08-2008, 05:50 PM

So your going to say that Carter was the worse president in History because of ONE YEAR. It seems that the days under Reagan weren't so good either... It seems that your figures are a litttle scewed as well, where it says that Carter's rate was at 21.98% it was actually 20.76%.
Reagan's Misery Index was 17.97 (not much better than Carter's) and was on an up turn by the time he left office.
From Personal expiriance I was employed more under Carter than I was under Reagan.
The United States Misery Index By Year

The US Misery Index - 1948 to 2007
Misery Index = Unemployment rate + Inflation rate

1948 11.49 Truman
1949 5.10
1950 6.30
1951 11.16
1952 5.32
1953 3.74 Eisenhower
1954 5.91
1955 4.09
1956 5.64
1957 7.64
1958 9.57
1959 6.46
1960 7.00
1961 7.76 Kennedy
1962 6.77
1963 6.88 Johnson
1964 6.44
1965 6.10
1966 6.80
1967 6.62
1968 7.83
1969 8.95 Nixon
1970 10.82
1971 10.25
1972 8.87
1973 11.02
1974 16.67 Ford
1975 17.68
1976 13.45
1977 13.55 Carter
1978 13.69
1979 17.07
1980 20.76
1981 17.97 Reagan
1982 15.87
1983 12.82
1984 11.81
1985 10.74
1986 8.91
1987 9.84
1988 9.57
1989 10.09 Bush, G.H.W.
1990 11.01
1991 11.10
1992 10.52
1993 9.87 Clinton
1994 8.71
1995 8.40
1996 8.34
1997 7.28
1998 6.05
1999 6.41
2000 7.35
2001 7.59 Bush, G.W.
2002 7.37
2003 8.26
2004 8.21
2005 8.48
2006 7.87
2007 7.46

Now Carter hardly qualifies as the worst president un US history.
The 10 Worst Presidents
Here are the facts:

Introduction
It's too soon to judge the current one, but for past presidents, the verdict is in. U.S. News has averaged the results of five polls to make a gallery of the worst chief executives. The years before the Civil War produced an era of failure: Six of seven presidents who served from 1841 to 1861 made the list.

1. James Buchanan (1857-1861)
He refused to challenge either the spread of slavery or the growing bloc of states that became the Confederacy.

2. Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
He was an ineffectual and indecisive leader who played poker while his friends plundered the U.S. treasury.

3. Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)
He survived impeachment after opposing Reconstruction initiatives including the 14th amendment.

4. Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)
His fervor for expanding the borders--thereby adding several slave states--helped set the stage for the Civil War.

5. Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)
He backed the Compromise of 1850 that delayed the Southern secession by allowing slavery to spread.

6. John Tyler (1841-1845)
He was a stalwart defender of slavery who abandoned his party’s platform once he was president.

7. Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
Serving right after Johnson, he presided over an outbreak of graft and corruption, but had good intentions.

8. William Harrison (1841)
He was president for all of 30 days after contracting pneumonia during his interminable inaugural.

9. (tie) Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
He was known as a poor communicator who fueled trade wars and exacerbated the Depression.

9. (tie) Richard Nixon (1969-1974)
Though politically gifted, he will forever be associated with the Watergate scandal and his resignation.

10. Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)
A political novice, the war hero is entirely forgettable as president.

A Survey of Major Polls
U.S. News examines five polls and determines the 13 lowest scoring presidents (including Jimmy Carter at 11th).