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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Next year TRUMP will be the most admired man! =P
Most rational people don’t participate in such crap.
The idiot radio host on this morning’s drive-in show (WMAL) mentioned this poll. He sniffed “So, Trump is #2 most admired? What’s there to admire? C’mon, all he’s accomplished is, he won an election! Are we supposed to admire him because he won an election? What’s next - are we going to give Trump a Nobel Peace Prize?”
Disgusting. I changed stations.
Gallup interviewed 1,000 people, 999 in California and 1 Communist Party member..
And the bridge is still for sale cheap.
Who took the poll and who did they question?
Yeah, but as usual, they didn’t ask ME or any of my friends. Fake News.
Yep, I believe that poll...uh huh...sure do...
aren’t these the same pollsters who had hillary up by 12 . . . . .
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