***OFF TOPIC***Am I nuts (probably), but I find it hard to believe that President Clinton really ranks as the man most admired by Americans. The House of Reps just voted to impeach him. And the news reports that Clinton is the most admired American?
I am finding this poll harder to understand than the stock market.
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Clinton Most Admired
President Beats Out Pontiff
in American Fans
Despite his recent setbacks, President
Clinton is still America's most admired
individual. (AP Photo / composite
ABCNEWS.com)
Dec. 31 — President Clinton in 1998 was the
man most admired by Americans and his rating
was four percentage points higher than before
the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal broke, a
Gallup Poll showed today.
According to the poll, conducted Monday and Tuesday,
Clinton was listed first or second on the most admired list
by 18 percent of those queried, far ahead of the second
person on the list, Pope John Paul II, who got 7 percent.
That rating for Clinton, who has led the poll each of the
last five years, was up from the 14 percent in 1997 before
word of his affair with the former White House intern
monopolized the nation's news.
First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was the most admired
woman with 28 percent, twice what her rating was the year
before. She too has led the list for the past five years.
Starr Gets 1 Percent
Behind the president and the Pope John Paul II were U.S.
religious leader Billy Graham, with 5 percent, and basketball
star Michael Jordan, with 4 percent.
Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, who conducted the
investigation of Clinton's relationship with Lewinsky, was
most admired by 1 percent of the public, putting him in 13th
place, tied with civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, former
Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole, British Prime
Minister Tony Blair and Norman Schwarzkopf, the general
who led U.S. forces in the Gulf War.
Twelve percent picked a friend or relative as the most
admired.
Hillary Tops Oprah
Among the most admired women, entertainer Oprah
Winfrey finished in second place, far behind Mrs. Clinton
with 8 percent.
Following her were Elizabeth Dole, head of the Red
Cross, with 6 percent; former
British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher, with 4
percent, and former first lady
Barbara Bush and Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright, with
3 percent each.
The poll was conducted in
telephone interviews with 1,055
adults and had a margin of
error of 3 percentage points.
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Americans still
like him. They
really, really like
him.
Copyright ©1998 ABC News and Starwave Corporation.
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