Obama, Hillary Clinton Top 'Most Admired' Lists in Annual Gallup Poll

Donnie Viens: The Gallup organization is NOT "liberal polling" -- and I feel certain that when GW topped their list of "most admired", you would not have labeled it so. As for President Obama's current approval rating of 47%: I would point out to you that, at the same point in HIS Presidency, Reagan's job approval rating was 37% -- a full 10 pts lower. And he was greatly admired.

it has always baffled me, why politicians, billionaires, and those in entertainment, somehow become persons of the year. for some reason, us commoners, and penny-stinkers, still have this mentality, to worship the kings and queens, of our society. meanwhile, the people that should be mentioned, those in the actual trenches of real life, that are making a dent, and are not there because of a high powered election, or the status of a billionair, but are there because of what humble, unselfish, and often a life sacrifice, reasons put them there. the neighborhood pastor, a local doctor, a six grade teacher, a food ministry person, a high school coach, a counselor, a local fisherman, a cab driver, that volunteeers, a boy scout leader.......somehow we allow the media to dictate to us, and those real persons of the year, are right down the street, but are too often, forgotten, and taken granted.

It's pretty obvious that Obama and Clinton despise each other. They are like putting two cats in a gunny sack and shaking it...

And yet I find the policies of these two to be the most destructive to America. What has happened to our people? Have they become so indoctrinated by the liberal university professors that they can no longer think for themselves?

Hillary was not admired back in the 08 primaries. She was not quite so well liked by the Obama campaign and if my memory serves, Obama did not think she had very effective foreign policy. That is why I don't trust him. What does he do? Makes her chief of that very foreign policy. Now, she is admired. Why? Because she knuckled under.

Thats funny, i dont care who you are. Exactly why i pay no attention to polls.

I don't know what the writer of this slanted article is smoking, but George W. Bush beat both Obama and Clinton in the 1st and 2nd year, and beat Ole Slick in all four years. This propaganda piece of garbage is just one more attempt, by the Liberal Writers, to prop up a disfunctional, egotistical and incompetent President who is destroying America with his Socialistic Goals.

I wonder what the demographics were ??? Polls like this make no sense what so ever. How does a President with an approval rating so low also be one of the most admired ??? And how does a poll that only polled 1200 people make such determinations ???
Liberal Polling is always hysterical. They create their own results in order to convince people that their agenda is the majority. And then when the Country displays it's opinion on election day, liberals acted shocked.

Statistics and polls are only as reliable as the people who collect them. Remember the 4 out of 5 dentists choose this toothpaste commercial? They may have polled 100 dentists. 96 dentists said they would not recommend it. 4 of the hundred said they would. They can reliably report that 4 out of 5 recommend without skewing the data. And remember, they poll a select few. It's the grain of salt thing or the grain of sand in the sandbox - whichever you prefer.

I wonder what percentage of those surveyed who chose Obama are on government assistance and will benefit from the healthcare that working Americans will be forced to provide for them? Of course, we are not told who was polled, where they are from, their ages, etc.