Poll: Obama most admired man. Bush second most admired. Huh?

[bushmeister0]

AFP:

"President-elect Barack Obama has replaced US President George W. Bush as the most admired man in America.

One-third of the 1,008 respondents surveyed named Obama as their first or second choice, with Bush falling to a distant second after seven years as the country's most-admired man.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081226/pl_afp/uspoliticsobama

He's been America's most admired man for the past seven years? Where was I?

WTF does this all mean? What kind of Pravda happy news is this?

There's more:

"Among men, John McCain -- Obama's defeated Republican rival for the presidency -- ranked third and three others tied for fourth place: Pope Benedict XVI, the Reverend Billy Graham and former president Bill Clinton."

And get this, among the most admired women, Hillary is #1, followed by -- gasp -- Sarah Palin at 11%.

Condi Rice comes in fourth, followed by Michelle Obama and Oprah.

Condi Rice????????

WTF?

Are these the most admired people or the most well known?

I mean, wouldn't most people say their most admired man was their husband or father or something? You know?

And how does Bush come in second with five percent?

The mind boggles. I thought we were over this stupid shit. USA Today, obviously, didn't get the memo.

[Kahuna]

1. He's the second most at 5%. Big deal. nt

[bushmeister0]

3. Yeah but, who is his the second most admired man at five percent?

There's no one in between? There's 95 percent of the rest of us who do not admire him. Shouldn't that be the headline?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. A sample of 1,008?

Meaningless.

Ignore it.

[bushmeister0]

5. Well, I think the Literary Digest predicting Alf Landon's victory or FDR in 1936

showed you don't have to poll every single person in the US to conduct an accurate poll.

As the U of Texas says:

"Statistical laws have established that no matter how large the population being studied (from a small city to a whole country), the size of the sample is the main factor that determines the expected range of error in a probability sample. Most current polls use samples ranging in size from 1,000 to 2,000 individuals."

I'm just saying . . .

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. That final line in your quote

explains perfectly why polls are nonsense.

[theoldman]

4. Easy to explain.

About half the voters were Republican and they are blind, deaf and dumb.

[bushmeister0]

6. No kidding. Did they only poll people at some megachurch in southern Virginia?

[TEmperorHasNoClothes]

7. Is the Bush family large enough to get W 5% of the votes???

because I can't think of anyone else voting for him.

[tomg]

8. What I like is that Angelina Jolie

came in tied for seventh with Laura Bush. I bet that pissed Jennifer Aniston off.

[pansypoo53219]

10. bushies are

virulent.