Who is the most popular U.S. political figure?

Maybe Democrats can learn something from them

There is a lot of debate right now over why and how the Democrats lost the 2024 election, and what to do about it before 2026. The takes have been catalyzed by recent surveys showing the share of adults who view the party favorably at an all-time low, with especially low enthusiasm among the base.

I’m not going to wade into that all right now (I do have a take simmering about winning back disaffected voters, and especially young men), but yesterday I had a related question when reading some of the recent polls that I thought would make a fun, short, chart-oriented post: If the Democratic Party brand is so bad, is there a Democratic (or Democratic-aligned) politician that could shore up their support? What politician, and style of politics, should Democrats model their next campaigns on?

Let’s dive into the polls and add some data to the debate:

This all started to take up more space in my mind when friend of the blog and elections analyst for Split Ticket, Lakshya Jain published a nice a…