Gallup poll: G.W. Bush and Hillary Clinton "most admired persons"

[Tender Branson]

What man that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire most?

G.W. Bush: 10%
Bill Clinton: 8%
Al Gore: 6%
Barack Obama: 5%
Billy Graham: 3%
Nelson Mandela: 3%
G.H.W. Bush: 2%
Bill Gates: 2%
Pope Benedict XVI: 2%
Jimmy Carter: 2%

What woman that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire most?

Hillary Clinton: 18%
Oprah Winfrey: 16%
Condoleezza Rice: 5%
Angelina Jolie: 3%
Laura Bush: 3%
Margaret Thatcher: 2%
Benazir Bhutto: 2%
Nancy Pelosi: 1%
Maya Angelou: 1%
Queen Elizabeth: 1%

Results are based on telephone interviews with –1,011—national adults, aged 18+, conducted December 14-16, 2007. For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points.

http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/12/26/most_admired.pdf

[Joe Biden 2020]

What man that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire most?

G.W. Bush: 10%

WOW!!!  Weird!!  Is this the same George W. Bush? or did they mean George H.W. Bush?

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Not really that suprising.

[Silent Hunter]

No, they mean the current President of the United States. It was a very competitive field though.

[Stranger in a strange land]

What man that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire most?

G.W. Bush: 10%

WOW!!!  Weird!!  Is this the same George W. Bush? or did they mean George H.W. Bush?

Not surprised: anyone still supporting Bush is probably severely brainwashed.

[Boris]

When Americans think of public figures they most admire, do politicians really come to mind?

[Silent Hunter]

When Americans think of public figures they most admire, do politicians really come to mind?

Well, it's hardly going to be Paris Hilton, is it?

[MarkWarner08]

What man that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire most?

G.W. Bush: 10%
Bill Clinton: 8%
Al Gore: 6%
Barack Obama: 5%
Billy Graham: 3%
Nelson Mandela: 3%
G.H.W. Bush: 2%
Bill Gates: 2%
Pope Benedict XVI: 2%
Jimmy Carter: 2%

What woman that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire most?

Hillary Clinton: 18%
Oprah Winfrey: 16%
Condoleezza Rice: 5%
Angelina Jolie: 3%
Laura Bush: 3%
Margaret Thatcher: 2%
Benazir Bhutto: 2%
Nancy Pelosi: 1%
Maya Angelou: 1%
Queen Elizabeth: 1%

Results are based on telephone interviews with –1,011—national adults, aged 18+, conducted December 14-16, 2007. For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points.

http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/12/26/most_admired.pdf

Jimmy Carter at 2%? LOL!

[Hatman 🍁]

Im surprised Hillary beat Oprah. I guess more women probably picked Oprah.

[12th Doctor]

Who in the Hell are these people who they asked?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Who in the Hell are these people who they asked?

A random selection of very, very stupid people. Like most polls and surveys.

[Хahar 🤔]

Where's the Dalai Lama?

[jokerman]

Oprah and Bush?  You've got to be kidding me.

[MODU]

Sitting Presidents tend to usually come on top in these polls.

[Lief 🗽]

This poll is a pretty good argument against FPTP.

[JSojourner]

So many people worthy of selection before Bush or Hillary.  Kinda sad.



Where did Dave Leip come in on the list?  ;-)

[Eraserhead]

Sitting Presidents tend to usually come on top in these polls.

They have came out on top every single year since Gallup started doing these polls. The fact that Bush just barely came in first is pretty hilarious.

[Verily]

Sitting Presidents tend to usually come on top in these polls.

They have came out on top every single year since Gallup started doing these polls. The fact that Bush just barely came in first is pretty hilarious.

Definitely a sign of how unpopular he is, and how deep that unpopularity runs, even among conservatives and Republicans.

I was impressed that 2% managed to remember Benazir Bhutto (perhaps the survey came at the height of the Pakistani political crisis).

Anyway... what would your choices be? I immediately thought of Aung San Suu Kyi as my "most admired woman", but I can't settle on a "most admired man". The Dalai Lama is a good choice, but there are plenty of others, too.

[Gabu]

I would definitely pick the current Dalai Lama as my most admired man.  Most admired woman, I'm not so sure about.

[falling apart like the ashes of American flags]

Man: Guy Picciotto
Woman: The DC Madam

[memphis]

I suspect if they asked for "least admired persons," the same two would come out on top.

[Eraserhead]

Man: Guy Picciotto
Woman: The DC Madam

This is BRTD

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

No surprise in the men's column but damn, Hillary?

[falling apart like the ashes of American flags]

OK I know this is attention-whorish but I just discovered this post and this has to be easily one of my favorite 20 posts ever on the forum:

Man: Guy Picciotto
Woman: The DC Madam

This is BRTD

[Chief Justice PiT]

     I like how the first-place finisher for both sexes was some whiny rich kid who sailed through life without any serious hardships while the second-place finisher was an extraordinarily gifted person who pulled himself/herself by his/her bootstraps.

     I guess the average American thinks that being born rich is more admirable than starting out at the bottom & fighting your way to the top.

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It's amazing how many votes sh**tty politicians got. I mean there really are more admirable people than these low life scum.