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Poll: Bush, Hillary Clinton most admired
AP ^ | 12/16/07

Posted on 12/28/2007 2:12:52 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

Poll: Bush, Hillary Clinton most admired

By NATASHA METZLER, Associated Press Writer

Wed Dec 26, 2:16 PM ET

They're the odd couple again: George Bush and Hillary Clinton, the most admired man and woman in America.

Though they stand on opposite sides of a political divide, the Republican president and the Democratic senator from New York are sharing the honor for a sixth straight year, according to a USA Today-Gallup poll.

They didn't win by much. Oprah Winfrey and Clinton's husband, former president Bill, were right behind.

When people were asked to name the man they most admire, 10 percent picked Bush, his lowest figure in the seven years he has been president. Bill Clinton got 8 percent — within the poll's margin of sampling error — while Nobel Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore had 6 percent and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, a presidential hopeful, was chosen by 5 percent.

Whoever is president has won the most-admired title every year since 1981.

Sen. Clinton, hoping to be president-elect by the time of the next poll, was named by 18 percent as the most-admired woman, the 12th time she's been in the top spot. Talk show host Winfrey came in a close second with 16 percent. First lady Laura Bush and actress Angelina Jolie were each selected by 3 percent.

The poll, released Wednesday, asked participants an open-ended question, allowing them to respond with any names that came to mind. The rest of the votes were spread among a wide variety of government figures, movie stars, friends and relatives. Queen Elizabeth II was in the top 10 for a record 41st time.

The poll of 1,011 adults was taken between Dec. 14 and 16 and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2007review; admired; bush; hillary; topten
So Hillary is the most admired woman who looks like the one below:

Maybe her Dem friends shown below could make it to the top of the list some day:

On the other hand, the legislator who could command the most admiration (at least from men) is actually in Russia:

Svetlana Khorkina, the member of Russian Duma and Gold-medal Olympic Gymnast


1 posted on 12/28/2007 2:12:54 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Clinton's husband, former president Bill, were right behind

That has got to offend the adolescent's tender ego to no end.

2 posted on 12/28/2007 2:19:53 AM PST by andyandval
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Gimme a break.


3 posted on 12/28/2007 2:23:34 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: TigerLikesRooster

“Hillary Clinton most admired “

Can anyone explain this?

I may NEVER go back to the US if it is this bad.


4 posted on 12/28/2007 2:45:10 AM PST by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia. Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
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To: AlexW

I hear ya, how’s Slovakia this time of year?


5 posted on 12/28/2007 2:51:26 AM PST by AliVeritas (ah, the sheer grace! in darkness and concealment, my house being now all stilled.)
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To: AliVeritas

“how’s Slovakia this time of year?”

Nice...cold...some snow...NO PC crap here :)
Nice little country.. They even had mangers in the town square...
Christmas is big 3 day celebration.


6 posted on 12/28/2007 3:35:10 AM PST by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia. Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
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To: AlexW
"Can anyone explain this"

The center always holds.

7 posted on 12/28/2007 3:46:17 AM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin

“The center always holds.”

That does not tell me anything.

Holds what???


8 posted on 12/28/2007 3:52:23 AM PST by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia. Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
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To: AlexW
That phrase, the center always holds, was coined a long time ago. It means that the political center will always win the election. Bush and Clinton are centrists.

In fact, "compassionate conservatism" was invented by Rove to push the "third way" off the center.

9 posted on 12/28/2007 4:01:39 AM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: TigerLikesRooster
"Though they stand on opposite sides of a political divide, the Republican president and the Democratic senator from New York are sharing the honor for a sixth straight year, according to a USA Today-Gallup poll.

They didn't win by much. Oprah Winfrey and Clinton's husband, former president Bill, were right behind. "


One marginal conservative and three Stalinists. Doesn't exactly give me the warm & fuzzies.
10 posted on 12/28/2007 4:06:35 AM PST by LIConFem (Thompson. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter Lifetime ACU Rating: 92 (any combo will do, fellas))
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To: LIConFem

Just shows how ign’nant people are.


11 posted on 12/28/2007 4:44:19 AM PST by Huck (Soylent Green is People.)
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To: Bon mots

Sheesh!!Wonder just how much they charged the Clinton LieBrary Laundromat for THAT!!!


12 posted on 12/28/2007 4:48:58 AM PST by mo
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To: Huck
Yes, frighteningly ignr’nt.
13 posted on 12/28/2007 5:00:25 AM PST by LIConFem (Thompson. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter Lifetime ACU Rating: 92 (any combo will do, fellas))
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To: LIConFem
I don't even think they are honest. I think they say what they think they are supposed to say. Who the hell admires a politician? That's like admiring a used car salesman or a bad check writer.

I think in reality people admire movie stars, top athletes, successful people will talent, money, and good looks. Not some killjoy, parasitic, political jobbers.

14 posted on 12/28/2007 5:05:08 AM PST by Huck (Soylent Green is People.)
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To: Huck
"I think in reality people admire movie stars, top athletes, successful people will talent, money, and good looks. Not some killjoy, parasitic, political jobbers."

I agree. Personally, I loathe most politicians, even some I've voted for. I tend to admire independant-minded, productive and successful people, and especially those who've used their God-given talents to drag themselves out of a bad situation.
15 posted on 12/28/2007 5:35:22 AM PST by LIConFem (Thompson. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter Lifetime ACU Rating: 92 (any combo will do, fellas))
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To: Ben Ficklin

“That phrase, the center always holds”

Yes, but that has that to do with HRC being admired?

I can not imagine ANYONE admiring that witch.


16 posted on 12/28/2007 5:51:20 AM PST by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia. Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
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To: Huck
Just shows how ign’nant people are.

In the last two presidential elections the democrats Al Gore and John Kerry each received dangerously close to 50% of the popular vote. That alone shows me how ign’nant people are.

17 posted on 12/28/2007 6:05:50 AM PST by Graybeard58 ( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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