![]() ![]() ![]() His approval rating had sunk to 22% amid economic trouble and the Korean War.Įisenhower, a Republican, had an approval rating of 75% shortly before he announced his reelection campaign on Feb. ![]() Truman announced on March 29, 1952, that he would not seek a second full term after losing in the New Hampshire primary to Sen. Truman was expected to lose the general election to Thomas Dewey, a Republican, but he pulled off a narrow victory. He had an approval rating of 53% in a poll conducted two months earlier. Truman decided to run for a full term of his own, and he announced his candidacy on March 8, 1948. He was vice president when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in 1945, near the end of World War II. That’s good news for Biden, who appears to have avoided any significant challengers. One theme: Primary battles are a sign of whether a president will win reelection. ![]()
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