The Indianapolis Star 'Mike Pence on Most Admired List'

[spanone]

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2017/12/28/vp-mike-pence-named-americas-10th-most-admired-man-new-gallup-poll/986627001/




http://news.gallup.com/poll/1678/most-admired-man-woman.aspx

[MyOwnPeace]

1. Hey!

Remember - Indiana gave us another Vice-President, Dan Quayle! (Murphy Brown - tomatoe - )

[Ohiogal]

2. That's certainly barf-worthy!

[spanone]

3. tied with ben carson....now that's something!!!!

😎

[ProfessorGAC]

4. They Must Have Called A Church

No surprise on Hawking. An awful lot of people probably don't know who he is.

[GeorgeGist]

5. Does anyone at Gallup realize ...

it's 2017 and it's almost over?

[Wounded Bear]

6. There's an old expression in football that applies...

"The most popular player on the team is the backup quarterback."

[IluvPitties]

7. Mother voted for him!

[ProudLib72]

14. How come Mother wasn't in the most admired women list?

Does that mean Mike voted for another woman?!!!?!?!

[Aristus]

8. Most Admired In Indiana.

Now, there's a list everyone should be on...

[spanone]

9. actually all my relatives are in indiana and they cheered when trump chose pence

cause he would be out of indiana....even the repubs were sick of him

[Aristus]

10. I had heard of the relief of a lot of Indianans (?).

So how did he get elected in the first place?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. Have no idea

A former Democratic Indiana House Speaker (John Gregg) came *close* to beating him in 2012 but the Democratic Party has been whittled down to almost nothing in Indiana since the last elected Democratic Governor, Frank O'Bannon suddenly passed away around 2004 and Mitch Daniels got elected. Republicans currently have a strong supermajority in the State Legislature and Democrats basically have no power to do anything. As to why we keep electing Republicans here

I was initially happy that Pence was not running for re-election (he was deeply unpopular by 2016) and thought that him hitching his wagon to Trump would finish him off because there was *no way* that Trump would be elected POTUS (or so I thought).

[Aristus]

12. Well, in your defense, Trump wasn't elected.

So, there's that.

Small compensation for having to have him in the White House, though...

[Proud Liberal Dem]

13. He didn't win the PV of course (which drives him nuts)

but he did win enough votes in the EC to assume the Presidency.