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7. Which is nice, but it's also misleading hyperbole

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Sat Jan 26, 2013, 06:42 PM

Jan 2013

"Most admired woman by Americans"; the polling was done in the US, people outside the US were not polled. America is not the world. The fact that the list includes people who aren't American, like Aung San Suu Kyi and Queen Elizabeth II, still doesn't make it "most admired woman in the world", just "women most admired by Americans"

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Most admired women in the world 11years in a row! (Gallup) [View all] Playinghardball Jan 2013 OP

i wonder how she ranks if men are included also JI7 Jan 2013 #1

I think men were excluded from the "most admired women" question REP Jan 2013 #2

that's why i asked how she would rank if it was women and men JI7 Jan 2013 #5

And this is why, my friends, tavalon Jan 2013 #44

Yay! Sarah Palin was number five! JoeBlowToo Jan 2013 #46

Please see response 59. Beacool Jan 2013 #60

And the most often named Most Admired Woman in Gallup's history PeaceNikki Jan 2013 #3

Very well deserved recognition for an exceptional woman. Arkansas Granny Jan 2013 #4

Vividly recall how Repukes reviled her with a seething unreasoning maniacal hatred for no readily indepat Jan 2013 #6

it wasn't RudynJack Jan 2013 #8

...right here at DU nt Walk away Jan 2013 #39

Yep, right here on this post too. Beacool Jan 2013 #61

Which is nice, but it's also misleading hyperbole Spider Jerusalem Jan 2013 #7

Can you point to a poll RudynJack Jan 2013 #9

Whether I can or can't is immaterial Spider Jerusalem Jan 2013 #10

so your RudynJack Jan 2013 #11

America is not the world. Spider Jerusalem Jan 2013 #12

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. RudynJack Jan 2013 #14

I think most people outside the US are probably pretty indifferent to Hillary Clinton. Spider Jerusalem Jan 2013 #16

While I admire Madame Secretary, tavalon Jan 2013 #45

RudynJack you're reacting as if Spider's got it in for Hillary FarrenH Jan 2013 #42

Way to miss the point. nt truebluegreen Jan 2013 #13

I get the point. RudynJack Jan 2013 #15

I'm indifferent to Hillary Clinton. Spider Jerusalem Jan 2013 #17

No A Little Weird Jan 2013 #20

It was not. The image in the OP, maybe.... but seriously, get over it. PeaceNikki Jan 2013 #21

Oprah Winfrey for god sake !! pangaia Jan 2013 #23

Nope. Spider Jerusalem Jan 2013 #31

You're so so hung up that you didn't read the content of my post at all, huh? PeaceNikki Jan 2013 #33

Rudy, pangaia Jan 2013 #22

<sigh> truebluegreen Jan 2013 #50

It's like the "world series"... reACTIONary Jan 2013 #26

1992 and 93 excluded of course ajk2821 Jan 2013 #54

Shows how much I know! (nt) reACTIONary Jan 2013 #57

You fail naaman fletcher Jan 2013 #27

I will struggle RudynJack Jan 2013 #40

The poll sez catrose Jan 2013 #58

Of course naaman fletcher Jan 2013 #25

I think everyone knows that this poll is of who US citzens on which woman in the world is the most 1monster Jan 2013 #18

Except by definition... Spider Jerusalem Jan 2013 #19

I didn't... reACTIONary Jan 2013 #28

Well.... Historic NY Jan 2013 #24

Mine too, except she wasn't my Senator, tavalon Jan 2013 #48

Hillary45. it shall be a landslide of historic Obamaian proportions graham4anything Jan 2013 #29

I agree. I know me and my husband are committed to support her. underthematrix Jan 2013 #32

She's the most admired women ever in MY eyes...and that's what matters to me! Auntie Bush Jan 2013 #30

Mine too. Beacool Jan 2013 #62

Unfortunately, she was alive during my time...but not so I noticed or remember. Auntie Bush Jan 2013 #63

But possibly wiser.............. Beacool Jan 2013 #64

Any other Democrat who wants to be President in 2016 has an uphill battle. (nt) Nye Bevan Jan 2013 #34

there is no other democratic in 2016 graham4anything Jan 2013 #35

She sure has done a lot in her career sad-cafe Jan 2013 #36

That's why I admire her. RudynJack Jan 2013 #41

She also has a beautiful smile, which the pic above doesn't show to best advantage. Aristus Jan 2013 #37

I knew it before I ever opened the thread. Raksha Jan 2013 #38

Oh, I do hope she rests up these next few years tavalon Jan 2013 #43

That really caught me by surprise. I thought it would be littlemissmartypants Jan 2013 #47

Rhi-who? tavalon Jan 2013 #49

Funny! If a cup of coffee was near my mouth, it would have spilled! juajen Jan 2013 #56

Eleanor would have been Damn proud of her . orpupilofnature57 Jan 2013 #51

Just remember that this is a Fallup poll, the one who had romney leading. MrYikes Jan 2013 #52

A perfect illustration of the failure bread_and_roses Jan 2013 #53

The long overdue goodbye. Tierra_y_Libertad Jan 2013 #55

In the 17 years that she has been on the list only 3 times has she come in second place. Beacool Jan 2013 #59