Poll shows Margaret Thatcher admired more in US than J Lo

Ananova ^ | December 30, 2002 | Ananova

[MadIvan]

A poll to find the woman most admired by Americans places Margaret Thatcher above Jennifer Lopez.

It also ranks the former Prime Minister above Madeleine Albright and Senator Elizabeth Dole.

Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush and Oprah Winfrey came top of the Gallup poll.

Among men, President George W Bush remained the most admired man for the second year in a row.

Clinton was favoured by 7 percent of those surveyed; Bush and Winfrey had 6 percent each.

Among the men, the president had a commanding 28 percent for men - well ahead of the runner-up, former president Jimmy Carter.

Jennifer Lopez's new movie and album, along with heavy media coverage of her pending wedding nuptials to actor Ben Affleck, boosted her to the sixth spot with 2 percent. Among younger respondents, Lopez out polled them all with 10 percent.

Secretary of State Colin Powell, Pope John Paul II, former President Bill Clinton and the Rev Billy Graham each earned 2 to 4 percent.

The telephone survey of 1,009 adults was conducted in December. Respondents were asked to name the two people they admire most.

Only one man, Academy Award winning actor Denzel Washington, from the entertainment world made it into the men's top-10. He rounded out that list along with former South African President Nelson Mandela, former Vice President Al Gore and former President Ronald Reagan.

[MadIvan]

It's nice to know, apart from Hillary and Oprah, that good taste is alive and well in the United States.

I have to say it is very, very seductive to be here - I can understand why a lot of my countrymen, and indeed members of my family, live here.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[Porterville]

Thank God. There is still hope for us yet.

[Desdemona]

Hillary Clinton,... and Oprah Winfrey came top of the Gallup poll.

This is NOT good....

[Ciexyz]

Nobody polled me, but I vote for Barbara Bush and Senator Elizabeth Dole as the most admired women. Among the men, I vote for President Bush and...sheesh, can't really think of any other public official or personality that I admire. Maybe Peter Jackson, the director of the Lord of the Rings saga.

[MadIvan]

Well it was only 7 percent.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Among the men, I vote for President Bush and...sheesh, can't really think of any other public official or personality that I admire.

Ronald Reagan?

Regards, Ivan

Who would have voted for Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher

[ken5050]

Whatever happened to the Spice Girls?

[taxcontrol]

Well, what I want Margaret Thatcher to do for me and J Lo to do for me (umm should that be TO me) is ENTIRELY two different things.

;-)

[MadIvan]

Whatever happened to the Spice Girls?

Who cares? ;)

Regards, Ivan

[alisasny]

While that is good news, hillary edged out Laura Bush 6% to 5%. Pretty sad.

[Mo1]

He rounded out that list along with former South African President Nelson Mandela, former Vice President Al Gore and former President Ronald Reagan

Reagan got the same as Al Gore??

This poll is soooooooooooooooo rigged

[ken5050]

Not I, but it shows the fickleness of most opinion polls, whether the affirmor refute one's point of view...

[Ciexyz]

Ronald Reagan and Nancy. I always admired Nancy, even tho the press savaged her, very unfairly IMO.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

How anyone can possibly admire a woman who is married to one man and bragging about her engagement and upcoming wedding to another is beyond me.

[Hank Rearden]

Elizabeth Dole? The big-government automaton? Wife of the old guy whose self-proclaimed proudest achievements were huge government expenditures?

Why on earth would that politician be on anyone's "most admired" list?

[MadIvan]

I think it has to do with column inches a lot of the time. Let's be brutally honest, Hillary Clinton is in the press a lot more than Laura Bush, because, quite frankly, she's constantly spouting off when she should just shut her oversized gob.

Laura Bush, in her quiet, undemonstrative way, is the sort of First Lady that the left wing media despises. It doesn't know what to do with goodness.

Regards, Ivan

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Tax collector for the welfare state...

[alisasny]

We even had Carmella Soprano praise Hillary on the Sopranos one episode. Discussion on Saturday about how most of the Hillary likers are men haters.

[Happygal]

I prefer J-Lo.