[OC] Average Presidential Rankings
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Who is putting James Buchanan in the mid 20s ranking?
What psychotic political scholar is ranking Buchanan all the way up to ~26, and fucking JOHNSON up to ~19???
Using old surveys makes this misleading. Crap presidents like Johnson and Buchanan would have been included in rankings where there were far fewer presidents, so they had a higher floor.
Meanwhile Trump only appeared on surveys with a floor of 45 or 46.
The word Democratic and Republican are virtually meaningless in this timescale.
Hot take: Andrew Johnson was worse than Donald Trump.
Source: knowing anything about Andrew Johnson
Biden is higher than Clinton? Absolute malarkey
Why is JFK rated so high? Wasn’t his foreign policy pretty shitty?
I’m not from the US and not to well versed in US politics, but if almost all presidents from one party rank in the top half, while almost all presidents from the second party rank in the bottom half, then I’m questioning the validity/reliability of the underlying data.
Edit: Since some people some to forget: The purpose of this sub is not discussing US politics but instead presenting data in a beautiful (and objective) way. If you want to prove that your side is the only correct one, please create some nice to look at charts to achive this
Woodrow Wilson near the top is all I need to know on how little to take this seriously.
Anyone who ranks Buchanan or Johnson as anything less than the two worst presidents ever is a best ignorant and at worst a moron.
This graph doesn’t do Grant justice. Grant used to regularly be ranked one of the worst presidents. It wasn’t until more books and information was being made wildly available that Grant’s rankings went up. In the last 10 or so years his average ranking went from 30 something to in the teens.
So where it says “surveys sampled: 26”, does that mean this is literally just 26 people’s opinion?
why tf is andrew “genocide” jackson so high up
Joe Biden ranked so high means either most of our other presidents were or this ranking is dog shit
Is a ranking *actually* going to make me say that Biden is too high and Trump is too low? I didn’t think that was possible but here we are.
Edit: Downvote if you want but Trump, despite his best efforts, failed to actively bring about the dissolution of the union. Buchanan managed it.
This seems like pretty shit data
This has to be rage bait, with Andrew Jackson 11th overall? He committed genocide against native Americans…
Andrew Jackson being ranked that high is concerning….
Why is Van Buren so high? He committed genocide.
If Biden is ranked that high i think I can disregard this data lol.
What a piece of shit post.
I will never understand how Ronald Reagan continues to be well regarded when his economic policies failed working people so spectacularly. He directly caused the cartoonish gap in wealth and income in America, and that issue fuels so many other divides.
Then again, we just elected Trump _because_ of the economy, so I guess we truly have not learned our lesson.
Edit: for everyone giving me downvotes, the data is there, friends. All you have to do is look at it.
Calvin Coolidge being so far down is criminal. This list clearly shows a definitive left-leaning bias.
Look, I’m just gonna say it:
William Henry Harrison being so low is criminal. Yes, he did absolutely nothing and that’s the beauty of it. Win and celebrate your win *so* hard that you can’t screw it up for anyone. Go out on top. I wish more presidents would do that.
Everyone knows these scholars have an anti-Whig bias, that’s what driving the low rankings of Fillmore, especially.
I wanna see a graph comparing popularity at the time vs how ranked viewed post-presidency with a clearer view of their accomplishments. It’d be interesting to see the difference between media/political influence and their studied impact on the nation.
I think it’d be interesting to see this sorted chronologically. Be interesting to see how their ranking applies based on their time period.
Biden being as high as he is assures this is not biased at allll….
Academia is left leaning and the bias clearly confirms this
This tells us more about the political leanings of the scholars polled than it does about the poll subject.
Trump is not great but putting him dead last reveals the absolute institutional brain rot of the alleged scholars surveyed.
You mean that political scholars lean left!? Shocker.
Claiming FDR > Washington is ridiculous.
When Trump left office, he was actually ranked as the third worst president of all time. In the four years since then, he has fallen to last. In other words, yes, the USA has reelected the worst president of all time, because they believed his lies.
I’m sure I’ll get downvoted on lefty-reddit, but this list is an abomination…
FDR is consistently over-rated, and was one of the US’s worst presidents, effectively extending the depression by 7 years, interning US citizens in camps, and being the US’s only actual dictator… Four terms…? Good gravy…
And Wilson being in the top10 is even more laughable. The guy is arguably the US’s single worst president, spear-heading the early “expertocracy” movement in the US which has lead directly to the modern unelected bureaucracy in DC which has way too much power and is not subject to elections.
What an unimaginably terrible ranking.