Which U.S. President do you most closely identify with?

[Lincoln Republican]

I am surprised to see Coolidge doing very well here. 

He is usually one of the forgotten Presidents.

So good for him.

[nolesfan2011]

LBJ, Jefferson, and Carter

[MurrayBannerman]

Politically, Eisenhower or Teddy.

Personality, Kennedy or HW.

[SWE]

Lincoln is really the only one I can really say I identify with.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

GHW Bush, the most merciful, the most compassionate.

I don't follow any deranged conspiracy theories about him.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Abraham Lincoln, followed by Ike.  Both shared my pro-business and small government ideology in THEORY, but both were more than willing to use their authority for the greater good when it was warranted.

[Never]

GHW Bush, the most merciful, the most compassionate.

I don't follow any deranged conspiracy theories about him.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Yeah, 41. A good man to try to emulate. I don't come close.

[dmmidmi]

Identify with, as in, who do I feel is "my" President? Or, who do I see similarities with in myself?

The former: Bubba
The latter: Ford

[Mr. Illini]

Politically, Teddy Roosevelt or Bubba Clinton or Jack Kennedy

Personally, Kennedy or Eisenhower

[King]

Culturally, I have nothing in common with any US President.

[Cory]

Politically: FDR, LBJ.

Personality: Richard Nixon, LBJ

[Mordecai]

I am surprised to see Coolidge doing very well here. 

He is usually one of the forgotten Presidents.

So good for him.

Also surprising is Bush 41 getting more mentions than Reagan.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Personality: Richard Nixon, LBJ

So wait, you are both an introvert and an extreme extrovert at the same time???

[Cory]

So wait, you are both an introvert and an extreme extrovert at the same time???

It's a mix of both you see.

[PPT Spiral]

Personality: Richard Nixon, LBJ

So wait, you are both an introvert and an extreme extrovert at the same time???

No, he must be one big son of a bitch

[traininthedistance]

I have giant soft spots for John Quincy Adams and Jimmy Carter.  This is not to say that they're the best presidents, more that they're the most underrated.

[MATTROSE94]

Policy/ideology: Franklin Roosevelt
Governing Style: George H.W. Bush, Dwight Eisenhower
Personality: Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy

[Blue3]

Policy/ideology: Franklin Roosevelt
Governing Style: George H.W. Bush, Dwight Eisenhower
Personality: Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy

You trying to be the best of all worlds?

[All Along The Watchtower]

The bizarre nostalgia for Bush 41 is pretty strange. His policies in office were basically Reagan-lite. And he was a shameless political opportunist who pandered to hard-line right-wingers and racists to get elected (Willie Horton, anyone??) even though it was transparently obvious that he was not a right-wing ideologue himself (unlike Reagan). He was so indifferent to domestic economic woes that a political catchphrase was coined for him ("It's the economy, stupid!") And his foreign policy is way overrated, particularly by Very Serious People.

Finally, no President named George Bush should ever be thought of as an example of someone who practiced "good governance." The fact that George Bush the Elder was somewhat less bad as President than his son doesn't negate this.

[Mechaman]

The bizarre nostalgia for Bush 41 is pretty strange. His policies in office were basically Reagan-lite. And he was a shameless political opportunist who pandered to hard-line right-wingers and racists to get elected (Willie Horton, anyone??) even though it was transparently obvious that he was not a right-wing ideologue himself (unlike Reagan). He was so indifferent to domestic economic woes that a political catchphrase was coined for him ("It's the economy, stupid!") And his foreign policy is way overrated, particularly by Very Serious People.

Finally, no President named George Bush should ever be thought of as an example of someone who practiced "good governance." The fact that George Bush the Elder was somewhat less bad as President than his son doesn't negate this.

Well you know, on the Atlas Forum a "Moderate" Republican is an Ivy League educated white protestant from New England who speaks in a soft voice while wearing polo shirts and khakis.  So yes, this doesn't surprise me.

[Blue3]

The bizarre nostalgia for Bush 41 is pretty strange. His policies in office were basically Reagan-lite. And he was a shameless political opportunist who pandered to hard-line right-wingers and racists to get elected (Willie Horton, anyone??) even though it was transparently obvious that he was not a right-wing ideologue himself (unlike Reagan). He was so indifferent to domestic economic woes that a political catchphrase was coined for him ("It's the economy, stupid!") And his foreign policy is way overrated, particularly by Very Serious People.

Finally, no President named George Bush should ever be thought of as an example of someone who practiced "good governance." The fact that George Bush the Elder was somewhat less bad as President than his son doesn't negate this.

George H.W. Bush is the only somewhat-acceptable Republican President that the Internet generation would have any memory of.

[MATTROSE94]

Policy/ideology: Franklin Roosevelt
Governing Style: George H.W. Bush, Dwight Eisenhower
Personality: Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy

You trying to be the best of all worlds?

I guess you can say I am.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Well...

Ideology: None of them really, but closer to Obama - modern progressive but not really 'leftist'
Governing style: JFK or Obama - collegiate
Personality: JFK - considered, good in a crisis

[politicus]

I am surprised to see Coolidge doing very well here. 

He is usually one of the forgotten Presidents.

So good for him.

Silent Cal fits the dominant personality type on Atlas rather well.

For me: Martin Van Buren.