President most hated by opposition?

[Tekken_Guy]

Which of the last three presidents is the most hated by his opposing party?

[ApatheticAustrian]

depends on the timeline.

i am pretty sure bush and obama weren't hated as much at this point of their presidency as trump even while bush obviously has had all this florida mess around his neck and obama was a kenyan muslim.

[Ronnie]

It's really hard to beat conservatives' hatred of Obama...I'd say it's about tied with liberals' hatred of Trump.

Isn't there polling data out there that can answer this for us?

[OSR stands with Israel]

Bush from 2005 on

[BlueSwan]

Trump is most definitely far more hated than Bush ever was. It's not close. I hated every minute of the Bush presidency, but I never saw Bush as a megalomaniac sociopath who could at any minute initiate a nuclear holocaust. He was just a really bad president who made a number of horrible decisions.

Conservatives hate of Obama was always completely irrational, I'm not sure exactly what to make of that. Sure they didn't like his political agenda and that's fair enough. But the guy was a true class act who had no personal scandals and behaved himself in an amazingly dignified manner. If he had been a conservative, the republicans would have hailed him as the second coming of christ.

[publicunofficial]

Congressional opposition or just the left/right in general?

[Famous Mortimer]

Conservatives hated Obama about the same as they hated Bill Clinton. It wasn't world historic hatred.

[Mr. Smith]

Conservatives hated Obama about the same as they hated Bill Clinton. It wasn't world historical hatred.

Which is itself actually historical...have to go back to McKinley and the Gilded Age to get anything close to the polarized type of hatred The Right had against Bill.

[Person Man]

It seems to be getting worse each president since HW or even Reagan....perhaps even since Ford.

[OSR stands with Israel]

It seems to be getting worse each president since HW or even Reagan....perhaps even since Ford.

this is how i rank the presidents from nixon on from most hated to least by other side

1. Richard Nixon from Liberals
2 . Bill Clinton from Conservatives
3. George W Bush from Liberals
4. Donald Trump from Liberals(though by this time next year he will be number one)
5.  Barack Obama from Conservatives
6. Ronald Reagan from Liberals
7. Jimmy Carter from Conservatives
8. George HW Bush from Liberals
9. Gerald Ford from Liberals

[Middle-aged Europe]

The President's average approval ratings throughout their terms according to Gallup:

Kennedy 70.1%
Eisenhower 65.0%
Bush Sr. 60.9%
Johnson 55.1%
Clinton 55.1%
Reagan 52.8%
Bush Jr. 49.4%
Nixon 49.0%
Obama 47.9%
Ford 47.2%
Carter 45.5%
Truman 45.4%
Trump 43.5% (own calculation based on the daily tracking poll)

http://www.gallup.com/poll/116677/Presidential-Approval-Ratings-Gallup-Historical-Statistics-Trends.aspx

So, ever since the presidency of the elder Bush, the president's average approval ratings have been in decline.

Does this mean Trump will be succeeded by a president who's average job approval will be around 40% at best?

[jdk]

Using the Gallup poll opposing party approval rating, I averaged their highest, lowest, starting, and finishing approval ratings among the opposing party.  This is how they rank going back to Truman.  Obviously Dubya would have been the top prior to Trump if not for 9/11.

1. Donald Trump
Came in at 13%
Now at 8%

2. Harry Truman
Came in at 31%
Topped out at 57% (May 1947)
Bottomed out at 5% (Jan, Feb 1952)
Left at 9%
25.5

3. Barack Obama
Came in at 41%
Topped out at 41%
Bottomed out at 6% (November 2012, December 2014)
Left at 14%
25.5

4. George W. Bush
Came in at 32%
Topped out at 84% (September 2001)
Bottomed out at 3% (September, October 2008)
Left at 6%
31.25

5. Richard Nixon
Came in at 45%
Topped out at 56% (May 1969)
Bottomed out at 11% (Jan, April, July 1974)
Left at 13%
31.25

6. Bill Clinton
Came in at 33%
Topped out at 43% (August 1998)
Bottomed out at 12% (October 1994)
Left at 39%
31.75

7. Jimmy Carter
Came in at 49%
Topped out at 60% (March 1977)
Bottomed out at 12% (Sep-Nov, 1980)
Left at 14%
33.75

8. Ronald Reagan
Came in at 39%
Topped out at 52% (April 1991)
Bottomed out at 17% (February 1983)
Left at 38%
36.5

9. George H.W. Bush
Came in at 38%
Topped out at 82% (March 1991)
Bottomed out at 9% (October 1992)
Left at 33%
40.5

10. John Kennedy
Came in at 52%
Topped out at 67% (March 1962)
Bottomed out at 30% (October 1963)
Died at 31%
45

11. Dwight Eisenhower:
Came in at 60%
Topped out at 67% (Nov 55, Dec 56)
Bottomed out at 28% (March 1958)
Left at 43%
49.5

12. Gerald Ford
Came in at 68%
Topped out at 68%
Bottomed out 28% (Feb, May 1975)
Left at 40%
51

13. Lyndon Johnson
Came in at 78%
Topped out at 78%
Bottomed out at 19% (October 1967)
Left at 32%
51.75

[Sir Mohamed]

Obama by conservatives. The level of hatred for this president has not been seen since the civil war and the Southerner’s hate for Honest Abe.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Pussygrabber by sane people.

[angus]

Feels like Trump, but we're less than a month in.  Give peace a chance.

You didn't offer Clinton as a choice?  You may or may not be old enough to remember 1993 but many people were foaming, rabid, crazy against Bill Clinton.  I remember in December 1992, a month before he even took office, I saw a car with an IMPEACH CLINTON bumper sticker.

[Vcrew192]

It's suicidal too. The Dems think they can pull a coalition out of the Anti-Trumpers and are gonna get bent over in 2018 and 2020 if they don't change their thinking.

[Hindsight was 2020]

Feels like Trump, but we're less than a month in.  Give peace a chance.

You didn't offer Clinton as a choice?  You may or may not be old enough to remember 1993 but many people were foaming, rabid, crazy against Bill Clinton.  I remember in December 1992, a month before he even took office, I saw a car with an IMPEACH CLINTON bumper sticker.

Kinda hard to give "peace a chance" when out of the gate he is acting like a corrupt, bigoted, authoritarian

[RI]

Trump by a mile (of those in OP's question).

[The_Doctor]

FDR and the GOP. That hate hasn't still subsided after 70 years.

[RINO Tom]

FDR and the GOP. That hate hasn't still subsided after 70 years.

Except for some Trumpists who ride his jock because their ideology doesn't extend beyond "what do rural White people like?"

Anywho, it honestly might be Bush by liberals ... I question how many here were old enough to remember that.  Conservatives could at least phrase their Obama hatred as hatred for the very institution of the federal government and how invasive it is, liberals LITERALLY hated the person of George W. Bush, and it seemed all the more venomous given Bush's likable PERSONAL style.

[Bojack Horseman]

Obama by conservatives. Having a Black man as president inspired millions of racist right-wing extremists to join antigovernment militia groups he'll-bent on overthrowing the government. In fact, they almost killed the police they claim to love so much in Bunkerville, Nevada.

[RINO Tom]

Obama by conservatives. Having a Black man as president inspired millions of racist right-wing extremists to join antigovernment militia groups he'll-bent on overthrowing the government. In fact, they almost killed the police they claim to love so much in Bunkerville, Nevada.

True, I totally remember that!!!!!

[The_Doctor]

FDR and the GOP. That hate hasn't still subsided after 70 years.

Except for some Trumpists who ride his jock because their ideology doesn't extend beyond "what do rural White people like?"

Anywho, it honestly might be Bush by liberals ... I question how many here were old enough to remember that.  Conservatives could at least phrase their Obama hatred as hatred for the very institution of the federal government and how invasive it is, liberals LITERALLY hated the person of George W. Bush, and it seemed all the more venomous given Bush's likable PERSONAL style.

Somehow, I do not think that Trumpists really hold an ideology beyond whatever their God-Emperor tells them and some sort of vague primordial nationalism.

[Bojack Horseman]

Obama by conservatives. Having a Black man as president inspired millions of racist right-wing extremists to join antigovernment militia groups he'll-bent on overthrowing the government. In fact, they almost killed the police they claim to love so much in Bunkerville, Nevada.

True, I totally remember that!!!!!

https://www.splcenter.org/20100126/terror-right

https://www.splcenter.org/active-antigovernment-groups-united-states

[Associate Justice PiT]

Conservatives hated Obama about the same as they hated Bill Clinton. It wasn't world historical hatred.

Which is itself actually historical...have to go back to McKinley and the Gilded Age to get anything close to the polarized type of hatred The Right had against Bill.

     This illustrates the growing trend of polarization to some extent. The frothing hatred of these last few Presidents by their opponents is not historically typical.