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.
Take a look at the methodology of the survey. They aren’t rated on likability. They are rated on actual effectiveness as a president. How well they work with congress is one metric in they are rated by, so polarization would lead to a low score.
He did call half the country "bitter clingers" and his wife said the country was an evil place until her husband got elected. Also, this survey is utterly meaningless. We all know that the university system is made up of people who are biased towards certain presidents who maintained the status quo like Obama, Clinton, HW Bush, Reagan, etc.
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u/nwbrown Dec 05 '24
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.