The authors cut through party bias to present the quantifiable facts about how
modern presidents have performed on critical national issues
Politicians and the media spend a lot of time telling Americans how the
presidents and their administrations are performing, but this analysis always
skews along party lines. In Presimetrics, Kimel and Kanell take a fresh look at
modern politics by gathering data from numerous government sources in order to
compare and rank presidential performance on critical issues, from employment
and health care to taxes and family values. The results frequently defy
expectations:
- Reagan, godfather of neoconservatives, increased the federal workforce more
than any president since