A brand new rating of presidents by a gaggle of self-styled specialists decided that Abraham Lincoln is America’s biggest president, whereas Donald Trump ranks final.
Lincoln topped the record of presidents within the 2024 Presidential Greatness Mission professional survey for the third time, following his high spot within the rankings within the 2015 and 2018 variations of the survey.
In line with a launch from the Presidential Greatness Mission, which touts itself because the “foremost group of social science specialists in presidential politics,” the 154 respondents to the survey included “present and up to date members of the Presidents & Govt Politics Part of the American Political Science Affiliation…in addition to students who’ve lately printed peer-reviewed educational analysis in key associated scholarly journals or educational presses.”
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Former Presidents Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump, and President Biden
The respondents have been requested to rank presidents on a scale of 0-100, with 0 being a failure, 50 being common and 100 being nice. Rounding out the highest 5 within the rankings have been Franklin Delano Roosevelt at quantity two, George Washington at three, Theodore Roosevelt at 4, and Thomas Jefferson at 5.
Trump was ranked in final place within the survey, being ranked worse than James Buchanan at 44, Andrew Johnson at 43, Franklin Peirce at 42, and William Henry Harrison at 41.
Respondents have been additionally tracked by their political affiliation and beliefs, which the discharge argues didn’t “are likely to make a significant distinction general” within the rankings, although there have been some outliers, primarily with current presidents.
Abraham Lincoln topped the record of presidents as soon as once more. (Library of Congress Prints and Pictures)
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Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Trump have been extra more likely to be ranked greater by conservatives or Republicans, with Reagan being ranked a mean of fifth by Republicans respondents, Bush nineteenth and Trump forty first. Amongst Democrat respondents, Reagan was rated a mean of 18th, Bush thirty third and Trump forty fifth.
An identical partisan divide was noticeable for Barack Obama and President Biden, who ranked a mean of sixth and thirteenth, respectively, amongst Democrat respondents, and fifteenth and thirtieth by Republicans. Invoice Clinton, a Democrat, was ranked greater by Republican respondents (tenth) than he was by Democrats (twelfth).
President Obama (Ned Dishman/NBAE through Getty Pictures)
The divide resulted in an general rating of seventh for Obama, twelfth for Clinton, 14th for Biden, sixteenth for Reagan and thirty second for Bush.
