About POTUS Grades

POTUS Grades was created to evaluate U.S. presidential terms by outcomes instead of rhetoric, personality, or campaign promises. The intent is to keep the framework transparent and consistent: the same categories, the same weights, and the same scoring process across every term.

Rather than ask whether a presidency felt successful, POTUS Grades asks whether measurable conditions improved or deteriorated while that president was in office. The model focuses on economic and social outcome indicators such as growth, inflation, labor conditions, fiscal balance, debt burden, income, poverty, markets, external balance, and public consent.

What This Project Is Trying To Do

• Create a single scoreboard that can compare terms across parties and eras on common criteria.
• Use public data sources and a repeatable pipeline so the results can be audited.
• Reduce narrative bias by emphasizing quantitative outcomes over political branding.

What This Project Is Not

• It is not a full judgment of every presidential decision, crisis, or historical context.
• It is not a substitute for qualitative history, constitutional analysis, or foreign policy evaluation.
• It is not static: data revisions and methodological improvements can update scores over time.

The goal is practical: make presidential performance easier to compare, easier to discuss, and easier to challenge with evidence. If you want to see exactly how each score is calculated, review the Methodology page.