Narendra Modi Wins Reader Poll for TIME Person of the Year [Ferguson Protesters second]

TIME ^ | 12/08/2014 | Justin Worland

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The Indian leader received more than 16% of almost five million votes cast

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who entered office this year on the promise of reviving the country’s economy, is the winner of this year’s reader poll for TIME Person of the Year.

In the final tally, Modi received more than 16% of the almost 5 million votes cast. Protesters who took to the streets in Ferguson, Mo., after the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager finished second with 9%. Hong Kong protest leader Joshua Wong, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai and the doctors and nurses treating Ebola rounded out the top five.

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TIME's "Person of the Year" is a person, group, idea or object that "for better or for worse ...has done the most to influence the events of the year"

[Da Coyote]

The poll will not matter.

Time will display it’s incompetence.

Just wait.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Who?

[ClearCase_guy]

The colored guy who gives good speeches?
The guy promising big transformations?
The guy who says he will fix the economy?
Time picked him?

Where’s the Nobel Prize?

[Blue Jays]

"...shooting of an unarmed black teenager..."

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DRINK!

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Where’s the Nobel Prize?

Yeah, he won that too... a few months after his inauguration.

[Red Badger]

Who?...............

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, they got it right for a change. Another good choice would be Bibi N.

[BigEdLB]

Agree PM Modi is a supposedly sharp fellow....

[FlingWingFlyer]

We're Number Two!!!