Religious leaders among ‘most admired’

Gallup reports a three-way tie for the fourth spot on their “Most Admired Man” list for 2008: Pope Benedict XVI, evangelist Billy Graham and former President Bill Clinton. A third religious leader landed 10th on the list: the Dalai Lama. President-elect Barack Obama topped the list with 32 percent of the responses, followed by President […]

Gallup reports a three-way tie for the fourth spot on their “Most Admired Man” list for 2008: Pope Benedict XVI, evangelist Billy Graham and former President Bill Clinton.

A third religious leader landed 10th on the list: the Dalai Lama.

President-elect Barack Obama topped the list with 32 percent of the responses, followed by President George W. Bush with 5 percent and Sen. John McCain with 3 percent.


The threesome ranking fourth each got 2 percent of the responses.

The Gallup/USA Today poll was based on telephone interviews with 1,008 adults Dec. 12-14 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

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