- 1 Dwight D. Eisenhower 6.26
- 3 John F. Kennedy 7.14
- 2 Lyndon B. Johnson 6.77
- 7 Richard Nixon 10.57
- 10 Gerald Ford 14.93
- 11 Jimmy Carter 20.27
- 9 Ronald Reagan 11.19
- 8 George H. W. Bush 9.68
- 4 Bill Clinton 8.80
- 6 George W. Bush 8.10
During the Presidential campaign of 1976, Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter made frequent references to the Misery Index, which by the summer of 1976 was at 13.57%. Carter stated that no man responsible for giving a country a misery index that high had a right to even ask to be President. Carter won the 1976 election. However, by 1980, when President Carter was running for re-election against Ronald Reagan, the Misery Index had reached an all-time high of 21.98%. Carter lost the election to Reagan.
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