When I was doing research for my diary about "Worst President in modern American history," I noticed that the historians (I'm guessing they bear some vague relation to actual historians; I didn't check their credentials) tended to give a lot of the Presidents in the period before the US Civil War really low ratings.

Yesterday I received an email pitch from the Sanders campaign:

When we began this campaign a little over a year ago we were considered to be a fringe campaign. But over the last year, I think that has changed just a little bit.

As of last night, we have won 22 state primaries and caucuses with more than 11 million votes.