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 was not asked. This is a MSM, Liberal, Obama just patting each other on the back. Doesn’t count.
So its basically a poll of people who have nothing better to do than spend 5 minutes on the phone with a pollster.
I tell them, “My input and contribution isn’t free. My rate is $100 per hour. Let me have your credit card number so I can set up an account for your organization. Your time began when I picked up the phone.”
Fake news like fake polls.
22% = 10% African Americans + 12% true liberals.
Believable.
Lucky you...you're only getting rain tomorrow, we're getting damned snow. I just hope it won't be much.
bingo
Are you?
Yeah, Sure, Uh huh, about as valid as the polls before the election with Clinton up by 20 points! When are they gonna learn the difference between facts and lies?
Having careing issues.
Does anyone honestly think they’d tell us the truth if Trump rated above Obunga, as he probably did? Have we that quickly forgotten the fraudulent polls that guaranteed a Hillary landslide? I throw a brown flag and call BS on this poll!
More fake news?
I find this hard to believe.
Maine, N.H., and VT. are supposed to get hit, BIG LEAGUE, with a blizzard.
Blizzard?!?! Wow.
Consider the source.
Exactly. They could poll for recognition of POTUS regardless of the person in the seat and probably get close to 22%.
> ...its highly likely that people are simply responding with a name they know. Garbage In, Garbage Out.
If a pollster asked me which man do you admire most, I couldn’t answer. I don’t know. That goes for historical figures too. I like some characteristics of some persons (and do like some persons, of course, much more than others), but I also dislike many things about them — and there are millions of “candidates”.
I agree that these polls — to the degree that they are legitimate — are mostly just name-recognition and prominence polls. A plurality of persons on the left or right just name their most prominent figure, and that makes enough to win.
What a Load of Obama Droppings
Obama is not a MAN, in any sense of the word.
Hopefully, they’ll be right and it’ll miss us and we’ll just get a bit of snow and no 50 mph wind. I am in no mood for any of that!
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