Adams was an unpopular president and lost to Jackson in a rematch four years later. Hayes was also a one-term president who, because of a back room deal between the Democrats and Republicans to end the contention and award the Republican the presidency, the Democrats got their way in the South and gave us Jim Crow for the next 80 years. Harrison was defeated by Cleveland in a rematch four years later. Bush won re-election in 2004, but left office with an extremely low approval rating after years of war in Iraq and an economy in a deep recession.