Most popular president

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Remember, each elector cast two ballots back then...

Washington got one ballot from every elector--and thus his election is considered unanimous.


For all the candidates who have so far gotten votes:

George Washington:  With the exception of one county in Pennsylvania, pretty much universally loved.

Abraham Lincoln:  Not particularly liked by his own party and certainly not by the Democrats.

Grant:  Personally immensely popular, but his failure to secure a third term (albeit in 1880, 4 years after the end of his Presidency) does bring him down a notch in my opinion.

Teddy Roosevelt:  A serious contender in my view, but I'm sure that there were some people that didn't like him...arch-conservatives and anti-imperialists, for example.  And Colombia.  Probably the second-most-popular President of all time.  Can't really blame him for his 1912 defeat, as that was the fault of the arch-conservatives alone.

Harding:  Very popular at the time, but really only in comparison to Wilson.  Forgotten after his death in favor of Coolidge.

FDR:  Obviously always had the anti-FDR league against him, and pissed off a lot of Democrats by running for a third term.  But he certainly ranks well up there.

JFK:  I'm convinced most of the Kennedy-love came after his death.

Nixon:  Watergate obviously taints his second term, and he always had the liberals to deal with.  Plus the Friedman-types, but nobody cared about them.

Reagan:  The Cult of Reagan is a recent invention.

Bill Clinton:  The Cult of Clinton arose solely because the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy hates him so much.