Posted on 12/18/2010 1:40:57 AM PST by Swordmaker
BP Oil Spill News Story of 2010; Attacks of September 11, 2001 News Story of Decade
UTICA, NY - Former Vice-Presidential candidate and Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin is the Person of the Year for 2010 according to a recent Zogby International survey. The poll, also names former President George W. Bush as the Person of the Decade (2000-2010). Palin garners a 21% response with President Barack Obama claiming 16% for person of the year, and Glenn Beck tied with Julian Assange with 13%. None of the other seven people listed (General David Petraeus, Mark Zukerberg, Hillary Clinton, Conan O'Brien, Steve Jobs, LeBron James, Robert Gates) in the survey pull in more than 6%. Democrats mostly choose President Obama (33%) and Assange (19%), while Republicans go for Palin (39%) and Beck (25%), and independents split their votes between Palin (17%), Beck (16%) and Assange (15%). President Obama only pulled 8% of the Independent vote.
Former President George W. Bush pulls in 44% of the respondents for Person of the Decade. President Obama comes in second with 20% and Osama Bin Laden garners 11%. None of the remaining six people listed (Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, Saddam Hussein, Vladimir Putin, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong-Il) in the survey receive more than 5%.
The same survey finds the BP Oil Spill off the coast of Louisiana as the news story of the year, with 40% of the vote, while the 2010 midterm elections come in second with 34%. The majority of Republicans (53%) believe the midterm elections is the most significant story of 2010, while Democrats (60%) choose the BP Oil Spill, and independents are split over the BP Oil Spill (39%) and the midterm elections (28%).
Additionally, the attack of September 11, 2001 is the news story of the decade according to 73% of respondents, and with the majorities across all party lines (Republicans 91%, Independents 74%, and Democrats 57%). Democrats are the only group to give any other stories double digit figures, with both the Bush/Gore elections of 2000 (11%) and the Obama/McCain election of 2008 (10%).
Other results from the interactive poll include:
International conducted an online survey of 1,950 adults from Dec 8 - Dec. 10, 2010. A sampling of Zogby International's online panel, which is representative of the adult population of the U.S., was invited to participate. Slight weights were added to region, party, age, race, religion, gender, education to more accurately reflect the population. The margin of error is +/- 2.3 percentage points. Margins of error are higher in sub-groups. The MOE calculation is for sampling error only. In almost all cases, respondents were provided a list of choices. For complete questions and choices please contact Senior Vice President for Public Affairs Corry Schiermeyer at 202-429-0022.
Looks like Zogby is not a big Obama fan!
election forecast 2012
The biggest gem in the whole story! We surround them.
Some of these items are just humor:
Most significant entertainment story of 2010: Glenn Beck Rally
Athlete of the decade (2000-2010): Tiger Woods
They can’t be serious.
Athlete of the decade (2000-2010): Tiger Woods
How can this be?
Neither one of them has even achieved the coveted Nobel Prize!
/ Major Sarcasm
“Athlete of the decade (2000-2010): Tiger Woods
I’m not a fan of the league but I think if you really studied this you’d likely conclude that Kobe Bryant should be athelete of the decade. But, hey. I could be wrong. It could be Tom Brady or Michael Phelps.”
Yup.
For what activity?
But how can this be? The left, RINOs and libertarians claim Palin is unelectatble, a lightweight, too controversial blah blah blah.
Meanwhile, these same people go nuts whenever her name pops up. And for them this is frequently because the Governor has been so effective at opposing Onada and getting her message out. Palin is a Constitutional conservative who is not afraid to claim and defend her governing philosophy. All of her detractors are arrogant intellectual effetes, ash and trash pols and/or Marxists.
Michael Phelps, no doubt.
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