Hillary Clinton Edges Out Oprah Winfrey As Most Admired Woman

The Gallup News Service ^ | 12/26/07 | Jeffrey M. Jones

[jamese777]

For the sixth year in a row, President George W. Bush is the most admired man and Sen. Hillary Clinton the most admired woman in Gallup's annual survey. But neither winner had a very decisive win this year, with former President Bill Clinton nearly tying Bush and Hillary Clinton barely topping talk-show host Oprah Winfrey. This is the seventh time Bush has been most admired man and the 12th time Clinton has been most admired woman.

These results are based on the Dec. 14-16 USA Today/Gallup poll, which asked Americans, without prompting, to say what man and woman "living today in any part of the world, do [they] admire most?" Gallup has asked the most admired man and woman questions in this format in all but two years since 1948.

Most Admired Woman

With 16% of total mentions for most admired woman, Winfrey had her strongest showing to date in the current poll. But Clinton also had a stronger-than-usual score in 2007 -- the 18% who mention the former first lady is the highest since 2000 (19%). Clinton's best performance was in 1998, when 28% said they most admired her, just as her husband was being impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives in the Monica Lewinsky matter.

Winfrey has now finished second on the most admired woman list every year since 1997 with the exception of 2001, when she was third (to Laura Bush and Clinton). During that time, she has come within two percentage points of Clinton for the top spot on one other occasion (2004) and within one point on two occasions (2002 and 2005).

[dayglored]

> I'd say Huma is a step up from Janet.

Yeah, but no way are those hills Hillary's. Might be Huma's.

Hmmm....

[KeyLargo]

How long will it be before the Klinton spin-machine turns the assassination of Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto into an angle that Hitlery will press on in her quest to be the first “woman” president against all odds, even though the evil conservatives wish ill of her.....

tick, tick...

Nurturer-in-Chief
Advice for Hillary Clinton from the former prime minister of Pakistan.

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