Evidence continues to mount that President Obama’s legacy when he leaves office in 2017 will be best captured by the phrase “Great Divider.” For his fifth year in the Oval Office, Obama’s “partisan gap” – the difference in the two major parties’ approval rating of a president – is 71 points, as measured by Gallup. That nearly ties Obama with President George W. Bush’s 72-point gap in his fifth year in office.

But Obama’s overall tenure tells the rest of the polarization story: “Obama’s first, second, third, and fourth years in office were the most polarized for any president’s first, second, third, or fourth years,” Gallup found. “However, the 71-point party gap in ratings of Obama’s job approval during his fifth year in office is slightly less than the 72-point gap found in Bush’s fifth year.”