Posted on 12/30/2013 11:58:50 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
Poll: Americans rank Obama, Hillary Clinton most admired
Reuters 8:41 a.m. CST, December 30, 2013
(Reuters) - Americans named President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the world's most admired living man and woman in 2013, according to a Gallup poll released on Monday.
Obama topped the annual list for the sixth consecutive year, a typical ranking for a sitting U.S. president, the polling organization said.
But the percentage of those surveyed who choose him as the most admired man fell to 16 percent this year, down from 30 percent in 2012.
The president's job approval rating has dropped during a year marked by a botched healthcare rollout and stalled legislative initiatives at the start of his second term.
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The same look the Heaven’s Gate followers had just before they went off to meet the Mother Ship!
Yet only 16% chose him as the ‘most admired man”. I am certain that 95% of blacks IDed him as the most admired. Which means he did not need many more votes to win the poll.
What sort of poll hypes a winner who gets 16% anyway? It is obvious that this is more of a poll of which man/woman is most well known to the public - not a case of admiration.
And only half of the respondents have been dead for years.
Thanks GrandJediMasterYoda.
Maybe they were he only two choices in the poll.
Americans named President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the world’s most admired living man and woman in 2013
HUH?
So people admire a President that has an approval rating on his job performance in the 40 percentile range?
IDIOTS............
Utopians are the easiest to control.
They left out a few words in front of American. African, democratic drone, Ignoramuse
I admit they are “rank”, but not in a good way.
Sad day for humanity when people accept the fact they are lied to for their own good.
If it was sooooo good, people would not need to be lied to.
And white pages on the net.
agitprop
I don’t Polls (all polls) any more than I trust the voting booths..
Amazing how republicans turn their heads from massive voter fraud in 2012...
Voting in the U.S. will be FOREVER SUSPECT...
Democrats made a huge mistakes with 150% voting in some precincts..
Must have been going on for decades... (they messed UP)...
I’m sure that has been FIXED though.. 2014 and 2016 will be corrupt but not as obvious..
Does anyone begin to believe this nonsense? A five year old could spot the lies from 50 yards, give us a break....
Agreed. 16%? Doesn’t sound all that good to me. This is simply hyping numbers as best of the bad.
Which cess pool city was that poll taken in? Had to be a demodummie strong hold.
I live in a very small town and you couldn’t find 5 people here that would admit to voting for odumbo or that would vote for Clinton either. (We have lots of smart people here, all 888 of them.)
That's because it's hard to for a large sample to spontaneously come up with the same name of an admired person. We don't have that kind of monolithic culture, so people just name the current president.
The only exception is when a second term president becomes extremely unpopular. So Kissinger was "most admired" for the last years of Nixon's presidency, and outgoing President Clinton had to settle for a tie with Pope John Paul.
The real news here is that Obama's support here was almost cut in half. It went from 30% to 16% in twelve months.
Was the poll taken only in Detroit?
Most admired by only 16%, probably his sons and daughters. Might be a whole bunch of others at 15% or so.
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