... At sixteenth. Barack Obama was number 1, edging out Jesus who was forced into the number two spot.
God, the omniscient entity hisself, came in 11th, sandwiched between Mother Teresa and Hillary Clinton. Don't think about that to closely.
The poll results, from Kos:
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The results are in:
- President Obama
- Jesus Christ
- Martin Luther King
- Ronald Reagan
- George W. Bush
- Abraham Lincoln
- John McCain
- John F. Kennedy
- Sully, the hero of the Hudson
- Mother Teresa
- God
- Hillary Clinton
- Billy Graham
- FDR
- Gandhi
- Colin Powell
- George Washington
- Bill Clinton
- Condoleeza Rice
- Oprah Winfrey
- Sarah Palin
- General Patton
- Bill Gates
More like this
I am utterly undecided. Feel free to make a suggestion.
"Trump's chance of victory have doubled over the last two weeks," notes FiveThirtyEight, and this is in accord with what I've been saying.
UPDATE (Tuesday Morning):
In the Democratic Caucus, Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders by an amount so small that the caucus results have to be regarded as tie.
Clinton: 49.86%
Sanders: 49.57%
O'Malley: 0.57%
The Clinton Foundation started as a very successful post-presidency foundation of the type that is normally formed under the leadership of an ex president, in this case, Bill Clinton.
I would have said Genie Scott. :-)
If Jesus Christ and God can be heroes, I'll put in my vote for Prometheus. He brought fire to mankind, after all, and paid a hideous price for it. How Sarah Palin could be anybody's hero is beyond me. Wouldn't a minimum requirement be that the person have done something heroic?
#9 is encouraging. Others, less so.