President Obama Beats Out Trump as Most Admired Man in America

RadioOnFire.com - Earlier this week President Barack Obama said he's "confident" he could've won a third term, and judging by this year's annual Gallup poll, it appears that he's right. The poll results reveal Obama is the most admired man in America for the ninth straight year.

According to the Gallup poll, Americans named President Barack Obama more than any other living man when asked whom they most admire in 2016. The poll, conducted between Dec. 7 and Dec. 11, was open-ended and there was a huge variety in the answers, but more Americans named Obama than anyone else.

Obama won first place with 22 percent of Americans choosing him. President-elect Donald Trump came in second place with 15 percent of the vote. Obama's seven percent margin of victory was his smallest in the nine consecutive years he's won the annual poll. In third place was Pope Francis with four percent, and Bernie Sanders followed with two percent. Nobody else earned more than one percent of the vote, but the rest of the top ten included Rev. Billy Graham, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, The Dalai Lama, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and Vice President-elect Mike Pence.

The annual poll has been conducted since 1946, and incumbent presidents are typically chosen as the winner; 58 of the 70 times the Gallup poll was conducted, the president won. Obama's first time winning the poll in 2008, however, is when he was the president-elect, while President George W. Bush was still in office. Dwight Eisenhower, who won in 1952, is the only other president-elect to win the poll. Obama's ninth win puts him in second place overall, trailing Eisenhower who finished first in the poll 12 different times.

Among the women chosen in their poll, Hillary Clinton won for the 15th consecutive year. She's won 21 times overall with her first victory in 1993 when she was the First Lady of the United States. Eleanor Roosevelt, who finished first in the poll 13 times, has the second-most victories among women.

This year, Clinton won 12 percent of the vote, First Lady Michelle Obama came in second with eight percent. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was third, followed by Oprah Winfrey at fourth, and Ellen Degeneres coming in fifth. Rounding out the top ten for women is Queen Elizabeth, Malala Yousafzai, Condoleezza Rice, Elizabeth Warren, and Sarah Palin.

Source: complex.com