As the senile Joe Biden prepares to be led out of the White House by nurse Jill at long last, a new poll by the left-leaning gallup agency finds that Americans say he will be remembered as the second-worst president in U.S. history.
I mentioned “left-leaning Gallup” specifically to point out that Gallup is NOT a “conservative” polling agency. This means that if they are saying Biden is ranking as the second-worst, it is probably not to be discounted as “right-wing propaganda.” It is also likely that Gallup likely dressed it up so that Joe wasn’t the worst!
In its poll last week, Gallup found the following favorability ratings:
- John F. Kennedy – 68
- Ronald Reagan – 38
- Barack Obama – 21
- George H.W. Bush – 7
- Jimmy Carter – 6
- Bill Clinton – 5
- Donald Trump: First Term – (-4)
- George W. Bush – (-9)
- Joe Biden – (-35)
- Richard Nixon – (-42)
According to Gallup:
Compared with nine recent presidents included in the new Gallup poll, Biden rates most similarly to Richard Nixon, who has a -42 net rating (12% outstanding or above average versus 54% below average or poor). Biden receives more “poor” reviews than Nixon does (37% vs. 30%), but Biden gets more outstanding or above-average ratings.
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Americans do not expect history to be kind when it judges Biden’s presidency. Right now, he is evaluated similarly to Nixon, who resigned from the White House amid the Watergate scandal. Biden’s fellow Democrats are less enthusiastic about his presidency than they are about other recent Democratic presidents, and Biden is the only recent Democratic president who currently has a net-negative evaluation among independents. However, past presidents who finished challenging terms, including Carter, George W. Bush and Trump, have seen the harsh ratings they received at the time they left the White House soften considerably over time.
Probably the worst presidents in American history are Biden, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter, and James Buchanan. And John Kennedy was not much good, either.
There were a few presidents who really were non-entities, two because they died so soon after taking office. The latter two include William Henry Harrison, who was only in office for 32 days before he died, and Zachary Taylor, who died after only 16 months in office. Harrison’s VP, John Tyler, didn’t really do much in office because he was frozen out by his party and congress didn’t really allow him the chance to do much. Another do nothing president was Franklin Pierce.
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