Eleanor Roosevelt a Favorite Among Americans for New $10 Bill

NBC News ^ | August 5, 2015 | Kathryn Robinson

[Zakeet]

Eleanor Roosevelt is the current front-runner in the race to earn a spot on the soon-to-be redesigned $10 bill, according to a McClatchy-Marist poll released Wednesday.

The poll showed that more than one in four Americans (27%) are hoping that when the U.S. Treasury Department unveils the new design, the former first lady will be the woman featured.

African-American abolitionist Harriet Tubman is the second most popular choice with 17% of the vote, followed by Native American explorer Sacagawea with 13%.

[tumblindice]

She’s the one on the left?

[TheThirdRuffian]

The poll assumes people want to change the $10, which they don’t.

It’s a false choice that assumes this fakeness:

“Since we are changing the $10 bill for a token, what token do you want on it?”

[DiogenesLamp]

I’d rather have two $5 bills.

I suspect a lot of people will simply reject that bill. Every time one is offered it will provoke a discussion regarding how unworthy such a person was to be put on the bill in the first place.

I know I will tell people "I don't want that glorification of a nobody bill."

[o-n-money]

Bickerdyke vs Bitter Dyke.

[longtermmemmory]

changing the face on the 10 dollar bill is about changing the unity of the country. Our money is an agreement of the SYMBOLS OF THE NATION, without an agreement then there is no United in the United States. It is not “e pluribus Unum” it is “e pluribus pluribus”

This is the feminist (feminazi?) dollar coin push.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Why not Calamity Jane, or if you really want to stir up the pot “Belle Boyd”.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Didn’t Hillary Clinton practice necromancy by speaking with “Eleanor Roosevelt” while her husband was in the White House?

[bert]

she was a serial law breaker, a felon

[shotgun]

Trivia time. Which movie is the following line from: She looked a like a big lesbian mule...

[Fresh Wind]

[GreenHornet]

I thought they wanted a woman.

[Romulus]

Lucy was funny, but she was pinko too. Look it up.

[DiogenesLamp]

This is the feminist (feminazi?) dollar coin push.

Yup. If they don't get it done before Obama is out of office, the next President can't put a stop to it by appointing a new Treasury Secretary.

[katana]

If they're insisting on a woman, Abigail Adams would be a good choice. Her husband has never gotten the respect he deserved and she'd be the closest we have to a worthy female member of the founding generation. And far easier on the eye than Eleanor.

[dfwgator]

Ugh—better Harriet Tubman. As far as I know Harriet did only good, no harm.

Plus it kills two birds with one stone.

[katana]

A better and more currency ready picture.

[Salvation]

No to Eleanor and any other woman.

[Farmer Dean]

What’s in your wallet?Yuck.

[1Old Pro]

If they absolutely have to have a woman on the soon to be worthless $10 bill ... you would think that the idiots could come up with a better choice!

Perhaps a model would be OK.

[Dr. Sivana]

My 14 year old daughter supports Annie Oakley.