Gallup conducts an annual survey to determine America’s most admired men. This poll is usually announced just a few days before the New Year.
The poll was done yearly from 1946 through 2020, with 1976 the only year that was skipped.
NewsBusters reported that a year ago, the liberal news media stopped being interested in an annual poll because Donald Trump began to edge out Barack Obama for the first place. However, the networks had previously used the survey to embarrass Trump and his inability to win the election.
A Google search this year does not show any evidence that Gallup has conducted such a survey for the past 12 months. This could be because the thought of reporting what would have been Trump’s coming in second again this year after the Jan 6 riot is overshadowed by the fact that they didn’t want to do so.
The poll story has typically just hyped the first place finisher (even if it’s typically less than 20 percent), so Obama and President Joe Biden would likely have split the Democratic vote between them like last year, making it unlikely either would come in first place.
If that is indeed why Gallup has not released such a poll this year, it says something that one of the most prominent polling firms cited by the dominant media is so biased that they would choose not to do a poll, and break a 74-year tradition, if they expect not to approve of the results politically.
Obama was last in the top spot unambiguously at the close of 2018. This led to coverage by ABC. Good Morning America, CBS This MorningThe CBS Evening NewsThe, NBC Nightly News.
CNN’s most popular morning show Day of the NewThis was carried by the same person as, CNN TonightDon Lemon and Anderson Cooper 360. NBC ignored Trump’s 2019 marriage to Obama. TodayIt was covered.
However, last year when Trump made Obama second, the same show ignored it.
Rewind 2015 at NBC Today, correspondent Hallie Jackson notably snarked about Trump not wanting to highlight his loss to Obama as she sought to use the poll to embarrass the Republican presidential frontrunner:
Donald Trump is fond of talking about his poll numbers. But there’s a Gallup poll that shows him tied for second with Pope Francis in Savannah. The number one spot on this list is, of course, President Obama.
In the last year Fox & FriendsThe only morning program to report the results was Jillian Mele. Jillian Mele recalled:
Gallup Poll finds that President Trump is the most loved man in 2020. 18% of Americans named him their choice, which ends Barack Obama’s 12 year run. According to the Gallup poll, Trump received 15 percent of votes. Broken down by party: 48 percent of Republicans voted for Trump as their favorite man. Only 13 percent of Democrats named Joe Biden.
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You can find transcripts here:
From December 29, 2020
Fox & Friends
Eastern 8:47 AM
JILLIAN MEELE: Gallup has found that President Trump is the most loved man in 2020. 18% of Americans chose him to end Barack Obama’s 12 year run. By the way, he got 15% of the vote. Broken down by party: 48 percent of Republicans voted for Trump as their favorite man. Only 13 percent of Democrats named Joe Biden.
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Beginning December 31, 2019,
NBC’s Today
Eastern, 7:31 AM
PETER ALXANDER: President Trump and former President Barack Obama share the title “most admired person” according to a Gallup annual survey. The poll gave Trump 18 percent and Obama 18 percent. The top spot was occupied by President Trump for the first time in his presidency. Obama is honoured with the title for the record-breaking twelfth year.
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Starting December 29, 2018,
CNN’s New Day Saturday
8:44 am. Eastern
CHRISTI PAUL – Both Obamas were voted number one, but we should also point out that there is a male version — the man most loved in 2018. So we’ve got Michelle Obama on the women’s side in the number one place. Barack Obama number one (at 19 percent as shown on screen), and then, look at that, right behind him, Donald Trump with just — at 13 percent. This is a small span.
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Beginning December 28, 2018,
ABC’s Good Morning America
8:04 a.m.
We now move on to Michelle Obama. Michelle is having an amazing year. Her memoir, Becoming,It is a best-seller. Robin Wright is there with her. Gallup just named her the Most Admired Woman in the World. Her husband, the former President Barack Obama has been most loved for eleven years straight. This marks her first appearance on this top-ten list.
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CBS This Morning
7:32 a.m.
TONY DOKOUPIL: And former First Lady Michelle Obama is the most admired woman in America, according to a new Gallup poll. It’s the first time in 17 years someone other than Hillary Clinton has been at the top of the list. Oprah Winfrey came in second, followed by Hillary Clinton and, then, First Lady Melania Trump. Former President Barack Obama was the most admired man — get this — for the 11th straight year, followed by President Trump, former President George W. Bush, and Pope Francis.
(…)
MSNBC’s Morning Joe
6:29 a.m.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: The most admired Americans — you know, it usually would be Billy Graham and Betty Ford when I was growing up every year — well, this year, who was it? Barack Obama, Michelle Obama. This backlash is very real. It’s the same backlash Republicans felt in November at the polls. This trend is evident.
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December 27, 2018,
CNN Tonight
10:38 p.m.
DON LEMON: So the former First Lady, Michelle Obama, tops the list of America’s most admired women in 2018, knocking Hillary Clinton off the number one spot for the first time in 17 years. Oprah Winfrey (or just Oprah Oprah) came in the second, third and forth spots on this list. Melania Trump was fourth. For the eleventh consecutive year, former President Obama is the top-ranked man in America.
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NBC Nightly News
7:23 p.m.
KATE SNOW: Every year, Gallup puts out its list of the most admired men and women in America. These two winners have the exact same last name this year — Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are the top two. The win was Obama’s 11th in succession, however it was the first time for former First Lady. Oprah came in second. Hillary Clinton, who held the number one spot for seventeen years, came third along with Melania Trump. The second was President Trump.
(…)
CBS Evening News
6:31 p.m.
opening tease: In a Gallup poll released today, First Lady Michelle Obama was voted the woman most admired by Americans this year. This is apparently a family tradition, since Barack Obama remains America’s most beloved man for an 11th year.
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6:52 p.m.
JAMES BROWN: A new poll out today finds former First Lady Michelle Obama America’s most admired woman. It’s the first time in 17 years a woman other than Hillary Clinton has earned that honor. The Gallup poll’s most admired man, you ask? Barack Obama, former President for the 11th year. The fourth straight year President Trump was second.
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Beginning December 28, 2017,
CBS This Morning
Eastern, 7:52 AM
Also PoliticoEx-President Barack Obama won the American choice for most loved man, beating out Donald Trump. In the Gallup poll, Mr. Obama was first for 10 consecutive years — Donald Trump finished second. Hillary Clinton was named most-admired woman in the Gallup poll for 16 consecutive years.
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From December 28, 2015
NBC’s Today
HALLIE JACKSON: Donald Trump loves talking about his poll numbers, but there’s one poll he hasn’t mentioned yet — a new one from Gallup showing him in second place for the title of most admired man in the world, tied with Pope Francis, Savannah. By the way, the President Obama is number one.
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