Obama, Hillary Clinton most admired of 2008, with Bush, Palin second
President-elect Barack Obama is 2008's most admired man, according to a Gallup Poll released Friday, the first president-elect since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 to top the annual list.
A distant second is President George W. Bush, at 5 percent, a dramatic fall since he was named most admired by 39 percent shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Most admired woman, for the seventh year in a row, is Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton. But Clinton has some competition _ Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican's 2008 vice presidential nominee, was second, beating out television host Oprah Winfrey.
Poll analyst Lydia Saad called Obama's showing "extraordinarily high," She said there have been only a few times since the poll began in 1948 when an incumbent president has not topped the list _ Lyndon Johnson in 1967 and 1968 (Eisenhower was on top) and Jimmy Carter in 1980 (Pope John Paul II beat him). Also, from 1973 to 1975, Presidents Nixon and then Ford were topped by National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
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