Most Admired Woman/Man (Are Still NOT Right-Wingers)

The Gallup Poll has once again released its annual survey of the most admired woman and man in the world (by Americans). This year's survey was done between December 8th and 11th of a random national sample of 805 adults, and has a 4 point margin of error.

I like this survey because they don't provide the respondents with any kind of vetted list to choose from. Instead, they just ask an open-ended question -- What (woman/man) that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire most? The results of this survey for 2014 are shown in the charts above.

Hillary Clinton finished first, getting 12% of the votes (4 points better than Oprah Winfrey, who finished second). That's the 19th time Hillary has been named the most admired woman, and the 13th time in a row. She has been named most admired more than any other woman since the survey has been taken (with Eleanor Roosevelt being the woman named most popular the second most times (6 times less than Hillary Clinton).

For the men, Barack Obama was the most admired. He easily outpaced all others, finishing with 19% (13 points ahead of Pope Francis, who was second). That marks the 7th year in a row that President Obama has been named the most admired man.

There is a difference is how Republicans and Democrats answered the question, but it may surprise you to see that Hillary Clinton finished 3rd and Barack Obama tied for 1st in the Republican top five. No Republicans made the Democrat's top five. Here are the 5 most admired women and men named by Republicans and Democrats:

WOMEN

Republicans
Condoleezza Rice...............9%
Oprah Winfrey...............6%
Hillary Clinton...............5%
Sarah Palin...............4%
Angelina Jolie...............3%

Democrats
Hillary Clinton...............20%
Oprah Winfrey...............10%
Malala Yousafzai...............7%
Michelle Obama...............6%
Elizabeth Warren...............3%

MEN

Republicans
Barack Obama...............8%
Pope Francis...............8%
Billy Graham...............4%
George W. Bush...............3%
Ben Carson...............3%

Democrats
Barack Obama...............33%
Pope Francis...............5%
Bill Clinton...............4%
Stephen Hawking...............2%
Bill Gates...............2%