Rasmussen Reports poll
A Rasmussen Reports poll taken June 13–24 of 2007 asked 1,000 randomly selected adults to rate America's presidents. Six presidents — George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy — were rated favorably by at least 80% of respondents.
George Washington (94% favorable, 2% unfavorable)
Abraham Lincoln (92% favorable, 4% unfavorable)
Thomas Jefferson (89% favorable, 4% unfavorable)
Theodore Roosevelt (84% favorable, 8% unfavorable)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (81% favorable, 12% unfavorable)
John F. Kennedy (80% favorable, 13% unfavorable)
John Adams (74% favorable, 9% unfavorable)
James Madison (73% favorable, 8% unfavorable)
Ronald Reagan (72% favorable, 22% unfavorable)
Dwight Eisenhower (72% favorable, 15% unfavorable)
Harry Truman (70% favorable, 14% unfavorable)
Andrew Jackson (69% favorable, 14% unfavorable)
Gerald Ford (62% favorable, 26% unfavorable)
John Quincy Adams (59% favorable, 7% unfavorable)
Ulysses S. Grant (58% favorable, 24% unfavorable)
George H.W. Bush (57% favorable, 41% unfavorable)
Jimmy Carter (57% favorable, 34% unfavorable)
William Taft (57% favorable, 15% unfavorable)
Woodrow Wilson (56% favorable, 19% unfavorable)
Bill Clinton (55% favorable, 41% unfavorable)
James Monroe (49% favorable, 10% unfavorable)
Herbert Hoover (48% favorable, 34% unfavorable)
Lyndon B. Johnson (45% favorable, 42% unfavorable)
Andrew Johnson (45% favorable, 26% unfavorable)
Chester Arthur (43% favorable, 17% unfavorable)
James A. Garfield (42% favorable, 16% unfavorable)
William McKinley (42% favorable, 24% unfavorable)
George W. Bush (41% favorable, 59% unfavorable)
Grover Cleveland (40% favorable, 26% unfavorable)
Calvin Coolidge (38% favorable, 31% unfavorable)
Rutherford B. Hayes (38% favorable, 19% unfavorable)
Richard Nixon (32% favorable, 60% unfavorable)
Benjamin Harrison (30% favorable, 35% unfavorable)
Warren Harding (29% favorable, 33% unfavorable)
James Buchanan (28% favorable, 32% unfavorable)
James Polk (27% favorable, 21% unfavorable)
Zachary Taylor (26% favorable, 18% unfavorable)
Martin Van Buren (23% favorable, 19% unfavorable)
William Harrison (21% favorable, 16% unfavorable)
Franklin Pierce (17% favorable, 25% unfavorable)
Millard Fillmore (17% favorable, 25% unfavorable)
John Tyler (9% favorable, 15% unfavorable)
Washington College poll
A Washington College poll about presidential greatness, taken February 11, 2005, asked 800 adults nationwide, "Thinking about all the presidents of the United States throughout history to the present, who would you say was America's greatest president?"[12]
Abraham Lincoln (20%)
Ronald Reagan (15%)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (12%)
John F. Kennedy (11%)
Bill Clinton (10%)
Other/Don't Know (9%)
George W. Bush (8%)
George Washington (6%)
Theodore Roosevelt (3%)
Dwight Eisenhower (3%)
Jimmy Carter (2%)
Thomas Jefferson (2%)
Richard Nixon (1%)
John Adams (<1%)
Andrew Jackson (<1%)
Lyndon Johnson (<1%)
Gallup poll
A Gallup poll about presidential greatness, taken February 9–11, 2007, asked 1006 adults nationwide, "Who do you regard as the greatest United States president?"[11]
Abraham Lincoln (18%)
Ronald Reagan (16%)
John F. Kennedy (14%)
Bill Clinton (13%)
Franklin Roosevelt (9%)
Other/None/No opinion (8%)
George Washington (7%)
Harry Truman (3%)
George W. Bush (2%)
Theodore Roosevelt (2%)
Dwight Eisenhower (2%)
Thomas Jefferson (2%)
Jimmy Carter (2%)
Gerald Ford (1%)
George H.W. Bush (1%)
Richard Nixon (0%)
Recent president polls
These polls evaluate Presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower and later succession.
Quinnipiac University poll
A Quinnipiac University poll, taken May 23–30, 2006, asked 1,534 registered American voters to pick the worst U.S. President of the last 61 years.[13]
"Which of these eleven presidents we have had since World War II would you consider the worst president — Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Senior, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush?"
George W. Bush (34%)
Richard Nixon (17%)
Bill Clinton (16%)
Jimmy Carter (13%)
Don't Know/No Answer (5%)
Lyndon Johnson (4%)
George H. W. Bush (3%)
Ronald Reagan (3%)
Gerald Ford (2%)
Harry Truman (1%)
John Kennedy (1%)
Dwight Eisenhower (<1%)
USA Today/Gallup poll