What’s wrong with not-so-smart leaders? Shouldn’t voters expect their elected representatives to be smart enough to serve us well?
Thee midterms there are 35 US Senate seats and all 435 House seats up for election on November 8, 2022. The seats of five of the six non-voting members of the U.S. House are up for election as well.
Haven't we learned the lesson from the previous administration who broke every rule, stomped on many laws and still attempts to hide taxes, and university transcripts, while rejecting responsibility and blaming others?
So, in the spirit of hoping for exceptionally high-intelligence, we take a quantitative approach to some of our favorite examples of intelligence and stupidity. Just how dumb are our most famous useful idiots, buffoons and nincompoops?
Alternatively, just how smart do you have to be to be effective in #Congress, or to lead our nation? #CityImages sought to quantify the intelligence of USA elected leaders by estimating their IQ levels. Using factors such as intellectual brilliance and openness, thereby painting a colorful a picture of how smart our leaders were. All of the data below is from estimates of so-called leaders IQs as adults. For context, every IQ test differs, but an average IQ generally hovers around 100.
Reportedly, while Hubert Humphrey was running for president. One of his campaign managers said: "Mr. Humphrey, good news. The polls show we've got the intellectual vote!" Humphrey replied, "Great. Now how do we get the other 95 percent of America to vote for me?"
According to our research, the all-time dumbest USA president was IQ 120, and it belonged to Ulysses S. Grant.
Warren G. Harding comes in second lowest, at 124. His womanizing wasn’t very smart. There were rendezvous with his mistress in a White House closet, with a Secret Service agent to knock on the door if Mrs. Harding arrived on the premises.
Andrew Johnson ranks at 125. He was vice president, and became president when Lincoln was assassinated. He welcomed the southern states back after the Civil War, did nothing to help former slaves, and was otherwise annoying. He was impeached, but was acquitted in the Senate by one vote.
Then comes William Howard Taft, at 126. He was elected in 1908, the chosen successor of Teddy Roosevelt. In 1912, Roosevelt tried to make a comeback, but the Republicans nominated Taft. Roosevelt formed a third party, splitting the vote, and Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected president.
Calvin Coolidge was next on the IQ scale, with 127. He was known as Silent Cal. He was quoted as saying, “You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.”
Harry Truman, with 128, was vice president who succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was the president who ended World War II by authorizing atomic bombs dropped on Japan.
Zachary Taylor, IQ 129, was sworn in as president in March 1849, and died in July 1850.
James Buchanan, also 129, gets blamed for the Civil War by some historians. One source claims that Buchanan got threatening letters almost daily.
One with the highest estimated IQ was the sixth president, John Quincy Adams, estimated at IQ 175. He was the son of John Adams, the second U. S. president.
Next on the IQ scale were Thomas Jefferson and John F. Kennedy, both with 160 IQs. Bill Clinton was close behind at 159, and Jimmy Carter at 156.
Donald Trump claims 145 but some sources say he paid off a smarter person to take his tests.... Let us keep in mind that he was caught red handed and the current probes on and of his family, organization, inner circle and members of his posse could possibly sink defenses that advisors and armed militias could mount and place Him, his allies, and his militias a lot closer to being charged as a criminal enterprise. RICO is a Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizational… And so it goes.