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Obama is most admired American

Fri Dec 26, 7:18 am ET

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.

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