To explode some heads.

[hitech]

President Trump has ended former President Obama's 12-year run as the most admired man in America, edging out his predecessor in the annual Gallup survey released Tuesday.
Eighteen percent of the survey's respondents named Trump as their most admired man, compared to 15 percent who named Obama and 6 percent who named President-elect Joe Biden. Three percent named National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, while 2 percent chose Pope Francis.

Rounding out the top 10 were Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James and the Dalai Lama, all of whom received 1 percent.

[CptTrips]

LoL.

Apparently more Trumpkins vote in internet polls than elections.  Too bad we don't award the Presidency based on that.

Besides the poll is obvious crap.  Zack is nowhere on that list.

[MiloMorai]

Donald Trump ranked worst president in US history by nearly 200 political scientists
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-worst-president-presidential-greatness-survey-president-s-day-obama-george-washington-a8218721.html

Nearly 200 of America's top political scientists have voted Donald Trump the worst president in US history.

According to the 2018 Presidents & Executive Politics Presidential Greatness Survey, Mr Trump ranks even lower than disgraced President Richard Nixon – even among conservatives. Abraham Lincoln, unsurprisingly, takes the top prize. Mr Nixon sits at 33.

The study, conducted every four years, surveys social science researchers from the American Political Science Association’s section on presidents and executive politics. It asks the experts to rank each president’s greatness on a scale of 0 to 100, with 100 being great, 50 being average, and 0 being a total failure.

Mr Trump averaged a score of 12.34, bumping James Buchanan – the president who saw the US descend into the Civil War – out of the bottom spot. The result comes just months after Trump finished his first year in office as the most unpopular president in modern history.

I doubt his ranking has improved.

[CptTrips]

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Trump's approval rating has dipped to 39 percent, a 7 point decrease from the last Gallup survey

https://www.nationalmemo.com/gallup-poll-trump

 

[perdue3]

Mine would be the beard of Mel Gibson:

[FESS67]

President Trump has ended former President Obama's 12-year run as the most admired man in America, edging out his predecessor in the annual Gallup survey released Tuesday.
Eighteen percent of the survey's respondents named Trump as their most admired man, compared to 15 percent who named Obama and 6 percent who named President-elect Joe Biden. Three percent named National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, while 2 percent chose Pope Francis.

Rounding out the top 10 were Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James and the Dalai Lama, all of whom received 1 percent.

Trump is certainly a popular figure however I think it important that we add perspective to the results.  According to Wikipedia this poll has been conducted every year since 1948 with the exception of 1967.  The sitting president has won the poll in 60 of the 73 polls.  In fact the only president to not be awarded top spot was Gerald Ford, every other president won several times so Donald Trump kinda bucked the trend by not being voted top until the end of his tenancy.

I take these sorts of polls with a pinch of salt though because the most admired woman has been awarded to Hillary Clinton 22 times with 2nd place going to Elanor Roosevelt on 13 and then everyone else in single figures.

So let's congratulate Trump on his win and Clinton on her record. 

[FESS67]

Ahhhh media bias.  I know we have debated it on this forum and no matter how much we dislike it it will always be present which is why it is important to try to get information from a variety of sources.

A media outlet over here which is aligned to CNN has reported the same Gallup poll but their headline is different:

Melania loses award to Michelle Obama Third year in a row

The headline is factual however shows just how bias is introduced to skew the story.

[guncrasher]

Ahhhh media bias.  I know we have debated it on this forum and no matter how much we dislike it it will always be present which is why it is important to try to get information from a variety of sources.

A media outlet over here which is aligned to CNN has reported the same Gallup poll but their headline is different:

Melania loses award to Michelle Obama Third year in a row

The headline is factual however shows just how bias is introduced to skew the story.

name one that isnt biased one way or another.

semp

[Chalenge]

In France they always blamed the President for everything. If beet prices fell the farmers would dump truckloads of beets at the palace. In America, we blame the man in charge for every weather change. Trump will continue to get bad press. Biden will get good press and will be hated even more. It's just the way it works.

Toyota is about to take Musk's fire away. Such is life.

[FESS67]

name one that isnt biased one way or another.

semp

Yep, exactly my point.  I guess they think it makes boring reading if they just present the facts.

[guncrasher]

Yep, exactly my point.  I guess they think it makes boring reading if they just present the facts.

guess the point is if you dont like the facts then you call them biased.


semp

[FESS67]

guess the point is if you dont like the facts then you call them biased.


semp

You appear to be picking a fight. Lol.  Go back, read my posts in this thread again but with an open mind.

The media bias in this case is that the language used seeks to put Melania Trump down rather simply report the fact that Michelle Obama was voted most popular woman and Melania was voted 2nd most popular.

The bias is not about inaccurate facts it is the sentiment with which it is reported.

[guncrasher]

You appear to be picking a fight. Lol.  Go back, read my posts in this thread again but with an open mind.

The media bias in this case is that the language used seeks to put Melania Trump down rather simply report the fact that Michelle Obama was voted most popular woman and Melania was voted 2nd most popular.

The bias is not about inaccurate facts it is the sentiment with which it is reported.

well since all the news stories that i have read pointed to Trump being on top not sure what to tell you


semp

[RUSH1]

name one that isnt biased one way or another.

semp

Very true, but for every 1 conservative media outlet there are at least 10 liberal.  Just sticking to the facts.   

[guncrasher]

Very true, but for every 1 conservative media outlet there are at least 10 liberal.  Just sticking to the facts.

so the facts are that conservatives dont care to bring up more media outlets?

semp