TIME People of the Years Survivor-Mikhal Gorbachev is Survivor!!!!!!!

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In 1927, news magazine TIME had just remembered that they forgot to cover Charles Lindbergh's flight accross the ocean. Since the week was slow, they created the award. Since then many other notable people in the better portion of the 20th Century have carried this title.

Here's the list, vote out your least favorites!

If you don't know who any of these guys are.

Charles Lindbergh  (1927)Eliminated Round Thirty-One
Walter Chrysler  (1928)Eliminated Round Thirty-Two
Owen D. Young  (1929) Eliminated Round Twenty-Five
Mohandas K. Gandhi  (1930)Eliminated Round Seventy-One
Pierre Laval (1931) eliminated round Twenty-Six
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932, 1934, 1941) Eliminated Round Fifty-Nine
Hugh Samuel Johnson (1933)Eliminated Round Twenty-Seven
Haile Selassie I (1935) Eliminated Round Fifty-Five
Wallis Simpson (1936) Eliminated Round Twenty One
Chiang Kai-shek (1937) Eliminated Round Fourty-Five
Soong May-ling (1937)Eliminbated Round Thirty-Six
Adolf Hitler (1938) Eliminated Round Two
Joseph Stalin (1939, 1942) Eliminated Round Eleven
Winston Churchill (1940, 1949) Eliminated Round Sixty
George Marshall (1943, 1947)Eliminated Round Fifty-Six
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1944, 1959)Eliminated Round Sixty-Four
Harry S Truman (1945, 1948)Eliminated Round Fifty-Four
James Byrnes (1946)Eliminated Round Fourty-One
Korean War Veterans (1950) Eliminated Round Twelve
Mohammed Mossadegh (1951)Eliminated Round Sixty-Two
Queen Elizabeth II (1952)Eliminated Round Thirty-Five
Konrad Adenauer (1953)Eliminated Round Fifty-Six
John Foster Dulles (1954)Eliminated Round Sixty-One
Harlow Curtice (1955)Eliminated Round Twenty Three
Hungarian Freedom Fighters (1956)Eliminated Round Sixteen
Nikita Khrushchev (1957) Eliminated Round Sixty-Three
Charles de Gaulle (1958) Eliminated Final Round
US Scientists (1960) Eliminated Round Fifteen; lost unanimously.
John F. Kennedy (1961)Eliminated Round Fourty-Seven
Pope John XXIII (1962)Eliminated Round Thirty-Eight
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)Eliminated Round Sixty-Nine
Lyndon B. Johnson (1964, 1967)Eliminated Round Fifty-One
William Westmoreland (1965)Eliminated Round Thirty-Nine
Baby Boomers (1966) Eliminated Round Six
The Apollo 8 astronauts (1968) Eliminated Round Seventeen
Middle Americans (1969) Eliminatedn Round Seven
Willy Brandt (1970)Eliminated Round Sixty-Seven
Richard Nixon (1971, 1972)Eliminated Round Fourty-Nine
Henry Kissinger (1972)Eliminated Round Fifty
John Sirica (1973)Eliminated Round Thirty
King Faisal (1974)Eliminated Round Fifty-Eight
American Women (1975) Eliminated Round Thirteen
Jimmy Carter (1976)Eliminated Round Fourty-Four
Anwar Sadat (1977)Eliminated Round Sixty-Five
Deng Xiaoping (1978, 1985)Eliminated Round Sixty-Eight
Ayatollah Khomeini (1979)Eliminated Round Thirty-Four
Ronald Reagan (1980, 1983)Eliminated Round Fourty-Eight
Lech Walesa (1981)Eliminated Round Sixty-Six
The Computer (1982) Eliminated Round Five
Yuri Andropov (1983)Eliminated Round Thirty-Seven
Peter Ueberroth (1984) Eliminated Round Twenty-Four
Corazon C. Aquino (1986)Eliminated Round Fifty-Eight
Mikhail Gorbachev (1987, 1989) THE WINNER!!!
Earth (1988) Eliminated Round Three
George Bush(1990Eliminated Round Thirty-Three
Ted Turner (1991) Eliminated Round Eighteen
Bill Clinton (1992, 1998)Eliminated Round Fourty-Six
The Peacemakers (1993) Eliminated Round Fourteen
Pope John Paul II (1994)Eliminated Round Fifty-Two
Newt Gringrich (1995)Eliminated Round Thirty-One
David Ho (1996)Eliminated Round Thirty-Three
Andy Grove (1997)Eliminated Round Twenty-Eight
Kenneth Starr (1998) Eliminated Round Nineteen
Jeffrey P. Bezos (1999) Eliminated Round Twenty
George W. Bush (2000, 2004) Eliminated Round Fourty
Rudy Giuliani (2001) Eliminated Round Twenty Two
The Whistleblowers (2002) Eliminated Round Ten
Iraq and Afghanistan soldiers (2003) Eliminated Round Nine
The Good Samaritans (2005) Eliminated Round Eight
You (2006) Eliminated Round One
Vladmir Putin (2007)Eliminated Round Fourty-Two
Barack Obama (2008) Eliminated Round Fourty-Three
Ben Bernanke (2009)Eliminated Round Twenty-Nine
Mark Zukerberg (2010) Eliminated Round Four
Albert Einstein (1999, Person of the Century)Eliminated Round Seventy

Let's get to voting!

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Hitler

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So far it's:
You-5
Hitler-4

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You-11
Adolf Hitler-9

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Hitler, I guess.

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Adolf Hitler-10
Mark Zukerberg-2
Earth-1
Ted Turner-1
Josef Stalin-1

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I thought you would have voted for Zukerberg. You said he would last "one round longer than Hitler".

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I'll vote Earth, because of Edu's point.

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BTW, what does a person elected US president have to do, to not wind up as the TIME person of that year?

Ask Herbert Hoover.

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Earth-5
Mark Zukerberg-4
Baby Boomers-1
George W Bush-1
Henry Kissinger-1
Josef Stalin-1

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Zukerberg

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Sorry, I went to see my grandparents for the holidays.



Mark Zukerberg-6
The Computer-4
Josef Stalin-2
The Good Samaritans-1

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Good Smaritans

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Are people no longer interested?

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Ok then, here's our results!


The Computer-5
Josef Stalin-3
The Good Smaritans-2
The Whistleblowers-1

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Stalin

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The Good Samaritans - gtfo!

I take it you don't like U2/Microsoft?

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Are the Baby Boomers really worse than Stalin?

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Baby Boomers- 6
Josef Stalin- 4
The Whistleblowers-1
The Good Smaratitans-1

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Stalin.

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And our results:


Middle Americans-5
Josef Stalin-4
Whistleblowers-1

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Stalin

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The Good Smaraitans-3
Iraqistan Soldiers-2
Stalin-2
Whistleblowers-1

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Stalin

I'm voting for him every round until he goes.

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I'd update, but there's a tie right now.