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Copyright © 2017 South Florida Gay News.com, Inc. 4 • 2.22.2017 NEWS national C-SPAN POLL RANKS OBAMA AS DOWNTOWN 12TH BEST PRESIDENT Brittany Ferrendi ELEVATED fter a month out of office, Obama rose in presidential rankings. A C-Span has released results from their Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, a survey that ranks presidents. Ninety-one historians ranked the former presidents across 10 categories, and Obama placed 12th for best U.S. president overall. Obama ranked high in multiple categories, such as third on “Pursued Equal Justice for Photo: Barack Obama. All,” seventh on “Moral Authority” and 12th on “Vision/Setting an Agenda.” a scandal-free administration); 19th in He was ranked in the top 20 in eight of the administrative skills; and 8th in economic ten categories. He also made top ten in four management (despite having helped to save categories. the auto industry and significantly reducing "Although 12th is a respectable overall unemployment). But, of course, historians ranking, one would have thought that former prefer to view the past from a distance, and President Obama’s favorable rating when only time will reveal his legacy." he left office would have translated into a Obama’s lowest rankings were “Relations higher ranking in this presidential survey,” with Congress” at 39th and “International said Edna Greene Medford, a part of the Relations” at 24th. C-Span advisory team in a press release. “I am especially surprised that he was ranked Full rankings are available at at 7th in moral authority (despite heading C-Span.org/PresidentSurvey2017. Soaring above vibrant downtown Fort Lauderdale, 100 Las Olas will be the city’s tallest building: 499 feet, 121 luxury residences perched atop a 15 story Hyatt Centric. Ground breaking Q1 2017. Finished “Move-in” ready residences delivered the end of 2019. 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