Obama edges out Trump as most-admired man-Hillary Clinton most-admired woman for 22nd time

[workinclasszero]

Obama edges out Trump as most-admired man
Hillary Clinton keeps title as most-admired woman for 22nd time in annual Gallup survey.
By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL 12/27/2017 11:20 AM EST

President Donald Trump is the second-most admired man in the world among Americans, joining a small group of incumbent presidents who failed to win Gallup’s top distinction while in office.

Trump’s predecessor, former President Barack Obama, and vanquished general election opponent, Hillary Clinton, retain their titles as the man and woman Americans most admire, according to the Gallup poll released Wednesday morning.

Obama edged out Trump, 17 percent to 14 percent, to win his 10th most-admired title. He won the year he was elected president, each year in the White House and his first year out of office. Only former President Dwight Eisenhower has won Gallup’s most-admired more times than Obama (that would be 12).

Clinton narrowly bested former first lady Michelle Obama, 9 percent to 7 percent, retaining her honor for the 16th consecutive year. The former senator, secretary of state and Democratic presidential nominee has won 22 times overall, the most ever.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/27/most-admired-man-woman-gallup-319367

[SCantiGOP]

1. I'm going to turn on FOX and see how they are covering this

.......................just kidding.

[workinclasszero]

4. Here is breaking fox news coverage of this story

[HopeAgain]

7. Fox "online poll" in 5,4,3... nt

[workinclasszero]

9. LOL

[Shipwack]

16. Fox News Breaking Story

“Ex-President Obama comes in second to last among most admired men!”

[ProudLib72]

2. The fact that Dotard was admired by anyone at all makes me

[workinclasszero]

5. No kidding

Dump ain't fit to tie President O's shoelaces.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

19. Dump aint fit to follow after the pupperz

Picking up dumps.

[IronLionZion]

3. Wingnuts should boycott Gallup polls now

and just go with their heavily biased right wing pollsters and then be frustrated by election results going forward.

[J_William_Ryan]

6. There's nothing to admire about Trump.

Unless you're a bigot, racist, or dictator.

[n2doc]

8. Actually surprising

Trump is the first first-year President to not win this. And I would have thought all those MAGA types, the ones who give him 30% support no matter what, and call him 'God-Emperor", would have been higher than 14%.

[workinclasszero]

10. Maybe they are worried about Ryan cutting off their food stamps

and the lack of those thousands of coal mining jobs and no health ins that Dump promised them?

[n2doc]

13. The true believers only get their 'info' from Trump tweets and Fox n Friends

So I expect they are all waiting for money to trickle down like manna from Heaven. Gonna be waiting a long while for that....

[malthaussen]

12. Well, consider who didn't vote...

... if this poll canvasses everybody, then the 50% of the population who didn't vote is included in the sample. So the support for Mr Trump shrinks (presuming the non-voters are not split evenly), approximately by half, which makes the 14% more explicable.

This does presume that there were few Trump admirers among that 50% of non-voters, which makes one wish that just 1% of them had gotten off their duffs and voted.

-- Mal

[True Dough]

22. You know they'll find a way to spin this as "fake news"

Somehow Don the Con would impugn the validity of the poll, Gallup or not. He's such a poor loser.

[NastyRiffraff]

11. The only thing surprising about this

is that Dump was represented at all, let alone second. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton: WELL deserved!

[Scurrilous]

14. K&R

[sandensea]

15. "Edges" out?

[workinclasszero]

18. IKR?

[Shipwack]

17. Wait! DT second? SECOND? WTF?!!! nt

Nt

[BlancheSplanchnik]

20. Yay! President Obama and SoS Clinton have well earned it.

Comrade Fatass votes come from fools and bots.

[Joe941]

21. Wow. How in the world did tRump get 14%?