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How ’bout that? I had no idea they had each won the award the past 5 years, too. They’re the odd couple again:
George Bush and Hillary Clinton, the most admired man and woman in America.
Though they stand on opposite sides of a political divide, the Republican president and the Democratic senator from New York are sharing the honor for a sixth straight year, according to a USA Today-Gallup poll.
They didn’t win by much. Oprah Winfrey and Clinton’s husband, former president Bill, were right behind.
When people were asked to name the man they most admire, 10 percent picked Mr. Bush, his lowest figure in the seven years he has been president. Bill Clinton got 8 percent - within the poll’s margin of sampling error - while Nobel Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore had 6 percent and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, a presidential hopeful, was chosen by 5 percent.
Whoever is president has won the most-admired title every year since 1981.
So the President always wins the poll - unless the President is Jimmy Carter, apparently. I swear, people were smarter in the 80’s.
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