Poll: Obama, Clinton still USA's most admired persons

[Judi Lynn]

Source: USA Today

Poll: Obama, Clinton still USA's most admired persons
Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY5:17a.m. EST December 31, 2012

A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll on whom Americans admire the most reveals something new, and something not so new: Hillary Rodham Clinton is once again the most admired woman, and Barack Obama is once again the most admired man.

But the emotional scars of the Newtown, Conn., school massacre evoked an unusual answer from some poll respondents. For the first time, the public put "Connecticut teachers" and "U.S. troops" on their lists of admired individuals.

Americans have always looked up most to their president since the poll began in 1948 with Harry Truman as the most admired. But choices also reflect people in the news, and the school shooting clearly had an impact.

Although Gallup's Lydia Saad says their survey tracks admired individuals, not groups, 2% of those surveyed named the Connecticut teachers for "most admired woman." They may have been mindful of the deaths of six female staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary School, killed as they tried to protect their students. The survey was conducted a week after the Dec. 14 shootings.


Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/28/obama-hillary-clinton-most-admired-gallup/1797093/

[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. Meanwhile Dubya and Cheney,....

.....need I go on?

[dwigthreeD]

3. Where's Mittens and Ann on that list?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. Let's hope he doesn't join Dole selling boner pills.

[Larry Ogg]

2. Meanwhile, social insanity has fertile ground in the USA, and continues to spread like the plague...

And thanks to the corporately owned M$M, and venal sock puppets telling us all what to believe and who to adore, Americans have earned the collective right to call themselves "People of the Lie", although such titles comes with the facade of absolute deniability, lest it be totally pointless.

[Scurrilous]

4. K & R

[harmonicon]

6. So 2% of Americans don't know the difference between singular and plural?

Got it. Last people I'd think who would look up to teachers though.

[Beacool]

7. Congratulations to both of them.