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Question: Who was the most popular president
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George Washington		  
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John Adams		  
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Thomas Jefferson		  
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James Madison		  
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James Monroe		  
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John Quincy Adams		  
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Andrew Jackson		  
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Martin Van Buren		  
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William Henry Harrison		  
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John Tyler		  
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James K. Polk		  
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Zachary Taylor		  
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Millard Fillmore		  
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Franklin Pierce		  
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James Buchanan		  
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Abraham Lincoln		  
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Andrew Johnson		  
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Ulysses S Grant		  
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Rutherford B. Hayes		  
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James Garfield		  
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Chester A. Arthur		  
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Grover Cleveland		  
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Benjamin Harrison		  
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William McKinley		  
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Theodore Roosevelt		  
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William Howard Taft		  
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Woodrow Wilson		  
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Warren G. Harding		  
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Calvin Coolidge		  
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Herbert Hoover		  
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Franklin D. Roosevelt		  
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Harry Truman		  
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Dwight D. Eisenhower		  
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John F. Kennedy		  
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Lyndon B. Johnson		  
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Richard Nixon		  
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Gerald Ford		  
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Jimmy Carter		  
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Ronald Reagan		  
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George Bush		  
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Bill Clinton		  
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George W. Bush		  
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« on: June 06, 2005, 11:20:41 AM »
Who was the most popular president?
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« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2005, 01:58:31 PM »
Jimmy Carter, obviously.

No, really, it's hard to tell for those old ones, because we don't have polling data (at least not reliable data, I don't think) for their presidencies.

Also, it depends what period. GWB and GHWB were both insanely popular after their respective foreign adventures. It'd be interesting to get the top Gallup rating for each president we have data for.

If you mean the presidency as a whole, it's got to be FDR, out of the modern presidents. He had something like 70% approval ratings, right?
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« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2005, 02:15:04 PM »
Quote from: Monopolization on June 06, 2005, 01:58:31 PM
Jimmy Carter, obviously.

No, really, it's hard to tell for those old ones, because we don't have polling data (at least not reliable data, I don't think) for their presidencies.

Also, it depends what period. GWB and GHWB were both insanely popular after their respective foreign adventures. It'd be interesting to get the top Gallup rating for each president we have data for.

If you mean the presidency as a whole, it's got to be FDR, out of the modern presidents. He had something like 70% approval ratings, right?

This is just a lame attempt to find out.

Somehow it never fails to amaze me how a president like Harding must have been insanely popular at some point.
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« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2005, 02:20:25 PM »
People were probably just happy they had a President again. They basically didn't for 18 months or so before.
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« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2005, 02:23:57 PM »
Quote from: R.P. McLewis Trondheim on June 06, 2005, 02:20:25 PM
People were probably just happy they had a President again. They basically didn't for 18 months or so before.

Yeah, but they could have voted Democrat just as easily. Harding was the president to campaign with celebrities effectively.
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« Reply #5 on: June 06, 2005, 02:29:57 PM »
Does anyone here subscribe to Gallup? That's probably the best way to find out.
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« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2005, 02:49:51 PM »
Lincoln, with Washington a close second.
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« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2005, 02:57:04 PM »
Quote from: Alcon on June 06, 2005, 02:49:51 PM
Lincoln, with Washington a close second.

The poll question is: who was the most popular? I think he means through their respective terms.
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« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2005, 03:05:16 PM »
Quote from: Monopolization on June 06, 2005, 02:57:04 PM
Quote from: Alcon on June 06, 2005, 02:49:51 PM
Lincoln, with Washington a close second.

The poll question is: who was the most popular? I think he means through their respective terms.

Ohh.

That's kind of hard to say, I suppose. Most Presidents, at some time, are unpopular. Maybe JFK?
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« Reply #9 on: June 06, 2005, 03:50:32 PM »
When was FDR unpopular?

Anyone have FDR's lowest approval rating?
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« Reply #10 on: June 06, 2005, 04:28:25 PM »
Silent Cal?
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« Reply #11 on: June 06, 2005, 04:42:31 PM »
U.S. Grant

Everyone loved him. He had so many scandals and was uterly incompetent, but he was loved by the people all his years in office.
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« Reply #12 on: June 06, 2005, 05:19:23 PM »
Candidates would be Washington, Lincoln, both Roosevelts, and Eisenhower.
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« Reply #13 on: June 06, 2005, 05:47:49 PM »
Quote from: Monopolization on June 06, 2005, 03:50:32 PM
Anyone have FDR's lowest approval rating?


Right after his court packing scheme fell through. The GOP made major gains in the Midterm Elections of '38.
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« Reply #14 on: June 06, 2005, 07:41:27 PM »
Either Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower or Ronald Reagan.
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« Reply #15 on: June 06, 2005, 07:43:57 PM »
I'd say Reagan. He won every state except Minnesota and DC.

Granted Washington was the only president elected unanimously, he was also unopposed.
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« Reply #16 on: June 06, 2005, 08:08:22 PM »
Reagan was despised by a lot of people in his day so I wouldn't say him.

I will say Washington was the most popular.
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« Reply #17 on: June 06, 2005, 08:20:31 PM »
This is a tough one. The most popular Presidents, in chronological order, were: Washington, Jefferson, Monroe (Era of Good Feelings, anyone?), Jackson, McKinley, TR, Harding, Coolidge, FDR, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Reagan, and Clinton.
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« Reply #18 on: June 07, 2005, 03:44:39 AM »
Quote from: Bob on June 06, 2005, 08:20:31 PM
This is a tough one. The most popular Presidents, in chronological order, were: Washington, Jefferson, Monroe (Era of Good Feelings, anyone?), Jackson, McKinley, TR, Harding, Coolidge, FDR, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Reagan, and Clinton.

I'm not sure Coolidge's popularity was ever that high. Lincoln, Grant or William Harrison were quite popular in their day as well. The Bushes had approval ratings in the 90%s at some point. Most historians that I've read consider Lincoln the greatest president, but of course he was tremendously unpopular in the south.

Also Nixon and Johnson were elected and re-elected with over 60% of the popular vote, but fell from a high pedastal.
It's a tough question.
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« Reply #19 on: June 07, 2005, 09:29:48 AM »
Quote from: Senator PBrunsel on June 06, 2005, 05:47:49 PM
Quote from: Monopolization on June 06, 2005, 03:50:32 PM
Anyone have FDR's lowest approval rating?


Right after his court packing scheme fell through. The GOP made major gains in the Midterm Elections of '38.


What was it at? Do you have the number?
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« Reply #20 on: June 07, 2005, 05:13:19 PM »
They gained 6 senate seats and about 80 house seats (the latter would never happen today thanks to gerrymandering)
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« Reply #21 on: June 07, 2005, 08:00:29 PM »
Quote from: Liberty on June 07, 2005, 05:13:19 PM
They gained 6 senate seats and about 80 house seats (the latter would never happen today thanks to gerrymandering)

Not that. I meant his approval rating. Is this impossible to find or something?
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« Reply #22 on: June 08, 2005, 08:53:11 AM »
Quote from: Monopolization on June 07, 2005, 08:00:29 PM
Quote from: Liberty on June 07, 2005, 05:13:19 PM
They gained 6 senate seats and about 80 house seats (the latter would never happen today thanks to gerrymandering)

Not that. I meant his approval rating. Is this impossible to find or something?
I highly doubt that ridiculous notion had been invented yet.
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« Reply #23 on: June 08, 2005, 09:36:05 AM »
I'd have to say Ronald Reagan.

He had a major impact in ending the cold war.

Electorally, even many Democrats who voted straight Democrat for all other offices, U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Governor, State House, State Senate, State Offices, voted for Reagan for President, even in a solid Democratic state like Massachusetts in 1984. 
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« Reply #24 on: June 08, 2005, 09:56:31 AM »
Washington

He was elected unanimously....twice.
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