For the 19th time, Hillary Clinton earned the spot of the “most admired" woman of the year in the annual Gallup poll, beating out second-place Oprah Winfrey by four points and third-place Malala Yousafzai by seven. President Obama was deemed most admired man for the seventh year in a row, with Pope Francis coming in second thirteen points behind him and Bill Clinton a distant third.
Clinton has won the top spot in the poll more than any woman in the poll's history, maintaining the lead for 17 of the last 18 years, only being beaten out by first lady Laura Bush in 2001 after 9/11. Gallup reports:
In total, Clinton has been most admired woman 19 times, easily the most of any woman in Gallup's history of asking the most admired question, six more times than Eleanor Roosevelt. Clinton won the distinction from 1993 to 1994 and 1997 to 2000 when she was first lady; from 2002 to 2008 when she was a U.S. senator; and from 2009 to 2012 when she was secretary of state. Although she has had no formal public role during the last two years, she retains a high enough profile to top the list. Clinton is the presumed front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, should she decide to run.
