Headline Roundup December 29, 2014
Hillary Named Most Admired Woman
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HuffPost
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was again named the most admired woman in the world in an annual Gallup poll released Monday.
Clinton has taken the title 17 of the last 18 years. In 2001, then-first lady Laura Bush took the title.
President Barack Obama took the title of most admired man again this year, topping the list for the seventh consecutive year.
Wall Street Journal (News)
White, working-class voters in eastern Arkansas for years backed Democratic candidates, among them Bill Clinton and outgoing Gov. Mike Beebe, but have moved sharply toward Republicans in recent elections.
Now, as the 2016 election takes shape, some of Hillary Clinton ’s allies are trumpeting her potential as a presidential candidate to bring these voters back to the Democratic Party and to run competitively in a handful of states, including Arkansas, that have spurned President Barack Obama .
But even here, where
Washington Times
Americans have named former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton their most admired woman anywhere in the world for the 13th straight year and President Obama the most admired man for the seventh straight year, Gallup said.
Twelve percent said Mrs. Clinton was the women they admired most, followed by Oprah Winfrey at 8 percent, Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai at 5 percent, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at 4 percent.
Mr. Obama, the choice of 19 percent for most admired male, beat out Pope Francis at 6...
