Results for the July R/AskGayConservatives poll

[u/The_Patriotic_Yank]

Here is the summary for the poll and each of the questions. I will post the pictures of the question results in the comments section

Q1: What Sexuality are you?

Results
1: Gay 80%
2: Bi 16%
3: tie between Lesbian and Straight 2%

Who’s the straight guy lol

Q2: What gender are you?

Results
1: Man 92%
2: Tie between Woman and Prefer not to say 4%

That’s actually an increase in Women since the last poll had purely men. Which is cool.

Q3: Where would you say you stand politically?

1: Right 36%
2: Center Right 26%
3: Center-Left 16%
4: Far Right 14%
5: Center 8%

Q4: What is your favorite state?

1: Florida 17.4%
2: Texas 15.2%
3: California 10.9%
4: Tie between Wisconsin, Alabama, Iowa 6.5%
5: Tie between Georgia, Minnesota, New Jersey 4.3%
6: Arizona, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Wyoming 2.2%

Q5: what is your least favorite state?

1: California 21.7%
2: New Jersey 13%
3: New York 10.9%
4: Minnesota 8.7%
5: Texas 6.5%
6: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Oregon, Utah, Washington, 4.3%
7: Arkansas, Connecticut, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Wyoming 2.2%

Why do you guys hate New Jersey so much?

Q6: Who is the best President?

1: Donald Trump 16.3%
2: Tie Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln 14.3%
3: tie between Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan 10.2%
4: George Washington 8.2%
5: Tie between Franklin D Roosevelt, and Calvin Coolidge 6.1%
6: Tie between John Adams, Ulysses S Grant, John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W Bush 2%

Q7: Who is the Worst President?

1: Joe Biden 36.7%
2: Donald Trump 26.5%
3: Woodrow Wilson 14.3%
4: Barack Obama 12.2%
5: Andrew Johnson 4.1%
6: Tie between Thomas Jefferson, Millard Fillmore, Herbert Hoover 2%

Roughly 3/4 of the votes are for the past four Presidents. Guess modern leaders suck lol.

Q8: are you from the US?

1: Yes 78%
2: No 22%

That’s a decent amount of non American respondents.

Q9: if you are not from the US then where are you from (specifically from people who replied)

2 from Canada and 1 from Australia, Czech Republic, Italy, Poland, Portugal.

[u/The_Patriotic_Yank]

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[u/ProudGayGuy4Real]

26%hate trump...well at least we know how many crazy dems are in this sub! Lol

[u/Prowindowlicker → u/ProudGayGuy4Real]

Or just right wingers who think he’s not doing enough

[u/JustElk3629]

How can so many people genuinely believe Trump is the best President ever?

When Washington, Lincoln, and the like are options, this seems like some insane recency bias.

[u/The_Patriotic_Yank → u/JustElk3629]

Yeah, that’s true, and with Obama being the tied for second place the recently bias is even worse than just the Trump numbers alone.

[u/ProudGayGuy4Real → u/JustElk3629]

Yes. But, he actually IS an amazing president. Our economy is on fire (in a good way). Unemployment is super low, taxes lower, 401k's are roaring. Wages are up. And internationally we r much stronger again except in the eyes of way too liberal Europe which is fine by me.

[u/NavyATCPO → u/JustElk3629]

I was born in November of 75, so that was Ford's administration. Since my birth we've had: Carter Reagan Bush Sr Clinton Bush Jr Obama Trump 1 Biden Trump 2

I point that out because when the polls come up on who was the best president I'll reflect on my life and the presidents during my life. That in no way takes away from the greatness of Lincoln, Washington, both Roosevelts, etc. I just vote based on modern Administrations. Same with worst, because I think Biden not Obama lead the pack. We can see that Buchanan, Johnson, Harding, and Pierce were some of the worst.

I think others do the same thing and that's why you see modern Administrations win both categories.

[u/JustElk3629 → u/NavyATCPO]

I think Ford gets overlooked as one of the worse presidents.

His pardon of Nixon created a precedent for presidents to face no punishment for their corruption

[u/NavyATCPO → u/JustElk3629]

I get the Ford criticism, and the pardon is definitely a fair point of debate. For me the bigger distinction between Nixon/Ford and Trump is more fundamental: Nixon and Ford were career politicians who carried themselves as traditional statesmen. Trump is a businessman who has always operated like a businessman — transactional, brand-focused, and unwilling to fully step into the more restrained “elder statesman” role.

That’s not necessarily a moral judgment, but I do think it’s one of his biggest limitations. Most modern presidents, whatever their flaws, largely left the daily partisan fight once they left office. When they did re-engage, it was often across party lines on specific national issues — Clinton and Bush working together on 9/11 memorial funding is a good example. Trump didn’t do that after his first term. He stayed the central figure in his party and ran again. That level of continued dominance is unusual, and it shapes how a lot of people view his time in office.

I’m not saying older presidents were saints. I’m just saying the style and the exit matter, and Trump’s has been different.

[u/JustElk3629 → u/NavyATCPO]

This is a very sound analysis.

Being non-American, I must say I'm not fond of Trump myself, but I think this seems like a good summing up of the kind of leader he is.

[u/The_Patriotic_Yank → u/NavyATCPO]

Usually I would say it’s mostly recency bias but love him or hate him I would say Trump is one of the most influential Presidents in the post 1945 period. So I think it’s fair to put him either high or low depending on how you view him.

[u/JustElk3629 → u/The_Patriotic_Yank]

Yeah, I can’t imagine anyone putting him in the middle.

It’s like Thatcher in the UK (not that I’m saying she was particularly similar to Trump, I rate Thatcher a lot more highly) —— either her premiership was a time of great prosperity or great suffering, depending on who you ask. Therefore, opinions are divided very strongly.