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Biden is Officially the Least Popular President in 70 Years
Even Nixon and Carter had higher ratings than Biden, with 53.7% and 47.7%, respectively, and Eisenhower had the highest rating at 72.3%, according to the poll.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1956): 73.2%
Ronald Reagan (1984): 54.5%Richard Nixon (1972): 53.7%Bill Clinton (1996): 53.0%George W. Bush (2004): 51.0%Jimmy Carter (1980): 47.7%Donald Trump (2020): 46.8%Barack Obama (2012): 45.9%George H.W. Bush (1992): 41.8%Joe Biden (2024): 38.7%The results of Gallup’s presidential approval polls, which the organization has compiled since the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower began in 1952, have been strongly predictive of re-election success.
Historically, every incumbent in the past seven decades with an approval rating above 50% has won a second term. Only Barack Obama bucked the trend: his 2012 victory came despite a middling 46% approval six months ahead of that year’s general election.
No first-term president in Gallup’s history has returned to the White House with approval numbers as low as Biden’s — whose results this quarter ranked among the worst of the post-World War II era, in the bottom 12% of all presidential quarters going back to 1945.
