Which former president would you want in the job again?

Yesterday on CNN's website in honor of President's Day Jack Cafferty posited the question which past president would you want to lead the nation now. It actually came from a Gallup Poll he said:

"A new Gallup poll asks people if they could bring back any U.S. president, living or dead, to be the next leader of this country who it would be. 23% of those surveyed said John F. Kennedy. 22% said Ronald Reagan. Bill Clinton was next at 13%, followed by Abraham Lincoln at 10% and Franklin Roosevelt at 8%. The current president, George W. Bush, 1%"

However, here are the results based on comments on his blog. (I counted every president someone positively reviewed, so if they said Washington/Jefferson/Lincoln/Teddy Roosevelt I would have counted that as a vote for each)

1. Clinton, by far and away
2. FDR
3. JFK
4. Teddy Roosevelt
5. Lincoln
6 - tied. Washington, Jefferson, Reagan
9. Truman
10. Eisenhower
11 - tied. Nixon, Ford
13 - tied. Madison, Jackson, Wilson, LBJ, Carter
18. Polk
19. George W Bush
20 - tied. John Adams, Taft
22 - tied. Monroe, Fillmore, Cleveland, Harding, Hoover, George WH Bush
Not mentioned (at all or positiviely) - John Qunicy Adams, Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Benjerman Harrison, McKinley, Coolidge.

Thing to note: From Hoover onwards, every president made the list.

Non-Presidents to make the list:
1. Gore (because he won the popular vote in 2000; for his environmental-awareness campaign; and for not being George W Bush)
2. Alexander Hamilton... for some reason the people who named him didn't realize he was never president even though he's on the $10 bill...
3 - tied. Obama and MLK Jr.

Also rans:
Tony Blair (someone from London put that name in...)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Robert Kennedy
The 2nd Continental Congress
Barry Goldwater
Pierre Trudeau (someone from Toronto put that name in, he was a Canadian Prime Minister, even if he was from Quebec)
A Benevolent Dictator
Benjamin Franklin (at least that person realized he was never president)
Colin Powell
George Mitchell (elder statesman, former Senator, chief negotiator for peace in Northern Ireland, headed the Senate investigative committee on performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball)
Vladimir Putin (because he at least brings the Russians a sense of self-respect--sort of like a Reagan for Russians)

The butts of jokes
1. William Henry Harrison (1. for having the shortest presidency of 31 days; 2. for having a "killer speech", i.e. the longest inaugeral address which is suspected for weakening his immune system that eventually lead to his death)
2. Mildred Fillmore (For the funny name and no one remembering him)
3 - tied. Van Buren (the side burns), Arthur (the mustache), Harding, Nixon (Watergate), Clinton, George W Bush (current war in Iraq)
9 - tied. Jackson, Cleveland, Coolidge, Hoover (Great Depression), Carter, Reagan, George WH Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev

I'll be making future posts with my comments about the reasons for people like Bill Clinton, FDR, etc.