Poll: Reagan Gold Standard for Presidents

For a substantial number of all voters, 43 percent, it’s still best to describe a political candidate as being like Ronald Reagan, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Twenty-six percent see it as a negative, while 29 percent regard it as somewhere in between. Just 2 percent are undecided. Nearly half of men, 48 percent, see a comparison with Reagan as a positive, as do 40 percent of the women. Twenty-five percent of men say it’s a negative, while 26 percent see it as somewhere in between. Nearly one-third of women, 32 percent, say it’s in between, while 26 percent view it as a negative. While 81 percent of Republicans consider a comparison with Reagan as a positive, just 16 percent of Democrats agree. Fifty-one percent of Democrats see it as a negative, vs. 3 percent of GOP voters. Democrats view a Reagan comparisonby two-to-one as somewhere in between. Thirty-eight percent of unaffiliated voters say being compared with Reagan is a positive, 16 percent say it’s a negative, and 44 percent see it as somewhere in between.