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Public Persuasion

President	2021 Final Score	Category Rankings				2021 Overall Rankings
President	2021 Final Score	2021	2017	2009	2000	2021 Overall Rankings
Franklin D. Roosevelt	94.8	1	1	1	1	3
Abraham Lincoln	91.5	2	3	2	3	1
Theodore Roosevelt	90.3	3	2	4	2	4
George Washington	89.9	4	4	5	6	2
Ronald Reagan	89.1	5	5	3	4	9
John F. Kennedy	84.8	6	6	6	5	8
Thomas Jefferson	79.6	7	8	8	8	7
Andrew Jackson	78.6	8	7	7	7	22
Barack Obama	76.3	9	10	NA	NA	10
William J. Clinton	73.4	10	9	10	11	19
Dwight D. Eisenhower	73.3	11	12	11	10	5
Woodrow Wilson	72.4	12	11	9	9	13
James K. Polk	65.8	13	13	12	16	18
Harry S. Truman	65.5	14	14	16	12	6
William McKinley	64.2	15	16	13	14	14
Lyndon B. Johnson	64.1	16	15	14	13	11
James Monroe	63.5	17	17	15	17	12
Ulysses S. Grant	61.9	18	19	19	22	20
James Madison	60.5	19	18	18	18	16
Grover Cleveland	55.5	20	20	17	15	25
Calvin Coolidge	52.9	21	24	22	20	24
John Adams	51.4	22	22	26	24	15
George W. Bush	51.1	23	25	36	NA	29
James A. Garfield	51.0	24	21	25	21	27
George H. W. Bush	50.1	25	23	30	19	21
John Quincy Adams	49.4	26	33	32	33	17
Richard M. Nixon	48.2	27	26	21	28	31
William Howard Taft	47.3	28	31	28	25	23
Martin Van Buren	45.5	29	30	24	32	34
Rutherford B. Hayes	44.2	30	29	34	23	33
Zachary Taylor	44.1	31	27	20	26	35
Donald J. Trump	43.9	32	NA	NA	NA	41
Warren G. Harding	43.4	33	36	31	27	37
Chester A. Arthur	43.1	34	37	33	34	30
Jimmy Carter	43.0	35	35	35	30	26
Benjamin Harrison	41.9	36	32	29	35	32
Gerald R. Ford	41.6	37	34	23	31	28
William Henry Harrison	39.2	38	28	27	29	40
Herbert Hoover	35.0	39	38	38	37	36
John Tyler	34.9	40	39	37	38	39
Millard Fillmore	33.5	41	40	39	36	38
Franklin Pierce	30.1	42	41	40	39	42
James Buchanan	21.8	43	43	42	40	44
Andrew Johnson	21.7	44	42	41	41	43

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