Posted on 12/28/2016 7:01:02 PM PST by traumer
22% name Barack Obama as most admired man; 15% name Donald Trump Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman 9th time Obama has won; 21st time for Clinton
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Americans are most likely to name President Barack Obama as the man they admire most in 2016. Twenty-two percent mentioned Obama in response to the open-ended question. President-elect Donald Trump was second at 15%. It is Obama's ninth consecutive win, but the seven-percentage-point margin this year is his narrowest victory yet.
The results are based on a Dec. 7-11 poll. Since 1946, Gallup has asked Americans to name the man, living anywhere in the world, whom they admire most.
Incumbent presidents typically win the distinction -- in the 70 times Gallup has asked the question, the president has won 58 times. The 12 exceptions were mostly times when the sitting president was unpopular, including 2008, when Americans named President-elect Obama over President George W. Bush. Obama and Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 are the only presidents-elect to win the distinction. Eisenhower finished first 12 times, more than any other man in history. Obama is now second all-time with nine first-place finishes.
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I wonder what absolute MORONS in which hellholes, they called. This is beyond reason, on just so many different levels!
The polls gave Clinton the presidency. You can believe any poll done by the Lame stream media.
Right you are! :-)
And Obama is his own biggest admirer.
Whom did they ask?!
Obama is an anti-Semite son of a bitch. We will grind him into the dust of history as the first half white, half black president that wasn’t worth a damn.
They really should do a poll for other characteristics, like you mentioned - because it would test for whether name recognition is what is really being measured.
If 22& of the people also mention Obama to describe the “most arrogant person”, “biggest scoundrel”, “man with the nices smile”, etc... (both positive and negative), then it’s highly likely that people are simply responding with a name they know. Garbage In, Garbage Out. What the media spouts, a certain portion of the public simply echoes.
Ummm I think I might have to call bullshit!!!
Obama ‘s a man?
Hey mom!! :) Glad to see ya on the board tonight!
“The remainder of the top 10 most admired women include German Chancellor Angela Merkel”
Especially after she let those hordes of Muslim terrorists into Europe.
Viktor Orban, Hungary’s PM was the only one with guts who refused to let them in and put up a wall and border patrols to keep them out of Hungary.
Fake news .
The Obamanation looks like Il Duce Mussolini in that picture.
You beat me to it.
Pffft!!..Another fixed poll!!
Polled heavily in Californication.
The Obama family.
“Admired”?
Pls check the standards of those voting.
Imagine that Obama is second all time to Eisenhower... One was America’s general who helped defeat Nazi Germany and went on to lead America in the Cold War,,,, while the other lost the peace won on the battlefields of the Middle East.
This last election taught me that polls mean nothing.
With that said, Obama is OUTATHERE on Jan 20th! Good riddance.
I don’t care if he feels he is admired, HE IS GONE!
When the clown is out of Office, America will begin to be great again...AMEN.
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