Former US President Barack Obama and current President Donald Trump are tied in a Gallup poll for the man Americans most admire, with each receiving 18% of the vote. Michelle Obama led the women’s poll with 10%, followed by Melania Trump at 5%. The poll also noted the correlation between a president’s popularity and their party’s success in congressional elections.
Politics is said to make strange bedfellows, and an annual Gallup poll seems to confirm this thought. Despite their differences, former US President Barack Obama and current President Donald Trump are tied in the poll that asked Americans to name the man they most admire.
Trump and Obama each got 18% of the vote, and while many other men made the list — Pope Francis, Bill Gates, the Dalai Lama and Warren Buffett, for example — no other man gained more than 2%. Upon closer inspection, the divide between Trump and Obama becomes clear: 41 percent of respondents who chose Obama identified as Democrats, and 45 percent who nominated Trump said they were Republicans. Interestingly, 25% of respondents did not name anyone.
As for women, former First Lady Michelle Obama led voters with 10 percent of the total; she was followed by current First Lady Melanie Trump, at 5 percent. Oprah Winfrey, Hillary Clinton and climate change activist Greta Thunberg each got 3% of the vote.
Presidential Popularity:
Harry Truman experienced the largest presidential popularity drop in history, going from an 87 percent approval rating in 1945 to 22 percent in 1951.
Although George W. Bush achieved a 90% approval rating shortly after Sept. 9, John F. Kennedy had the highest average approval rating for a full term, at 11%.
Political parties tend to lose seats in Congress in direct proportion to the president’s popularity; the lower a president’s popularity rating, the more seats his party is likely to lose in the election.
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