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<DubyaWasBornWithASilverSpoonInHisMouth@NowAForkIsUpHisMonkeyAss.nul> wrote 
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> Obama is most admired American
>
> Fri Dec 26, 7:18 am ET
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> WASHINGTON (AFP) - President-elect Barack Obama has replaced US
> President George W. Bush as the most admired man in America, according
> to a poll published Friday in the USA Today newspaper.
>
> One-third of the 1,008 respondents surveyed named Obama as their first
> or second choice, with Bush falling to a distant second after seven
> years as the country's most-admired man.
>
> Thirty-two percent of respondents chose Obama against five percent for
> Bush. It was the first time a president-elect topped the poll since
> Dwight Eisenhower in 1952.
>
> The poll was conducted over telephone between December 12 and 14.
>
> The newspaper reported that the only higher support in the history of
> the survey was Bush's 39 percent rating in 2001, just a few months
> after the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
>
> Among men, John McCain -- Obama's defeated Republican rival for the
> presidency -- ranked third and three others tied for fourth place:
> Pope Benedict XVI, the Reverend Billy Graham and former president Bill
> Clinton.
>
> Hillary Clinton led the list of most-admired woman at 20 percent -- a
> spot she's held for 13 of the past 16 years.
>
> Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who catapulted into the limelight after
> McCain named her Republican vice-presidential candidate, was a distant
> second at 11 percent.
>
> Among women, the president-elect's wife, Michelle Obama came in fifth
> place, following talk-show host Oprah Winfrey in third and Secretary
> of State Condoleezza Rice in fourth.
>
> The Gallup polling organization has been conducting the phone survey,
> which has sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points,
> since 1948.
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081226/pl_afp/uspoliticsobama;_ylt=AgKndZczRZM0Xu7KPGjjIaes0NUE
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