I do not spend a lot of time reading polls, even if they are done by the respected Gallup Company; however, the Gallup poll released yesterday really grabbed my attention. This poll intrigued me somewhat because of the topic, "the most admired man and woman of 2015." Actually the topic was less interesting than the people who were chosen under this criteria. President Obama was the most admired man of 2015, says Gallup, while Hillary Clinton took the top woman's position. But more interesting to me was that Rev. Billy Graham, the Dali Lama, and Pope Francis were listed in the same poll in the Top Ten. Talk about diversity!
Donald Trump was the fifth highest except that he TIED with Pope Francis! Some people esteem a wealthy entrepreneur as much as others esteem a world spiritual leader. Gallup officials state that sitting presidents are almost always in the Top Ten or at THE TOP of the list each year. That might in some way explain why our current leader, President Obama, got top billing; however, how can that logic explain why Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in the nation? Who can say? But neither the President nor Hillary Clinton are MY most admired people of the year. And as usual, no one from Gallup Poll contacted me for my input. Curiously, I do not know ANYONE who has ever been polled by Gallup, but I suppose such people really must exist.
One interesting and heartening highlight of the Gallup Poll was that Rev. Billy Graham has finished in the Top Ten for FIFTY-NINE YEARS! Not fifty-nine consecutive years, because he finished below the Top Ten in 1962, and a poll was not taken in 1976, but 59 Top Ten finishes nonetheless. No one else has come close! President Reagan has been in the Top Ten 28 times, President Carter 27, and (INEXPLICABLY in my opinion) President Clinton comes in fourth so far, with 24 Top Ten finishes.
People are strange animals, and there is sometimes no accounting for taste. One man's Judas is another man's Obama. Oh how diverse, and seemingly irreconcilable, are our opinions. I am disgusted that these two people, President Obama and Hillary Clinton, both enemies of our democratic republic, are chosen as the most admired man and woman of the past year. Yet how sweet it is that Rev. Graham, Pope Francis, and the Dali Lama are also admired by Americans as well.
Well, Mr. Gallup, thanks for an interesting poll, one of the few I have read in several years, and....
God Bless America
Donald Trump was the fifth highest except that he TIED with Pope Francis! Some people esteem a wealthy entrepreneur as much as others esteem a world spiritual leader. Gallup officials state that sitting presidents are almost always in the Top Ten or at THE TOP of the list each year. That might in some way explain why our current leader, President Obama, got top billing; however, how can that logic explain why Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in the nation? Who can say? But neither the President nor Hillary Clinton are MY most admired people of the year. And as usual, no one from Gallup Poll contacted me for my input. Curiously, I do not know ANYONE who has ever been polled by Gallup, but I suppose such people really must exist.
One interesting and heartening highlight of the Gallup Poll was that Rev. Billy Graham has finished in the Top Ten for FIFTY-NINE YEARS! Not fifty-nine consecutive years, because he finished below the Top Ten in 1962, and a poll was not taken in 1976, but 59 Top Ten finishes nonetheless. No one else has come close! President Reagan has been in the Top Ten 28 times, President Carter 27, and (INEXPLICABLY in my opinion) President Clinton comes in fourth so far, with 24 Top Ten finishes.
People are strange animals, and there is sometimes no accounting for taste. One man's Judas is another man's Obama. Oh how diverse, and seemingly irreconcilable, are our opinions. I am disgusted that these two people, President Obama and Hillary Clinton, both enemies of our democratic republic, are chosen as the most admired man and woman of the past year. Yet how sweet it is that Rev. Graham, Pope Francis, and the Dali Lama are also admired by Americans as well.
Well, Mr. Gallup, thanks for an interesting poll, one of the few I have read in several years, and....
God Bless America
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