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TIME Magazine reports:
With eleven days left to go before TIME's 2015 Person of the Year poll[1] come to a close, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the upstart candidate for president, holds a wide lead over global notables among TIME readers even as he trails Hillary Clinton in voter polls and fights a long-shot battle for the Democratic nomination.
The self-described "democratic socialist" currently leads Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist, with 11% in the TIME reader poll compared with her 5%. Sanders also leads Pope Francis and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama and is far ahead of entertainers like Adele (2%) and Jennifer Lawrence (1.7%).
[...] Hillary Clinton has earned 1.3 % of the vote.
[...] Sanders is also beating Donald Trump in the reader poll.
[...] Voting on the reader's choice poll ends Dec. 4 at 11:59 p.m. and the winner will be announced Dec 7.
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While TIME says that Hillary's popularity in national voter polls is still higher than Bernie's, they fail to mention that Hillary's numbers are slipping while Bernie's numbers continue to climb.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 25 2015, @08:31AM
this is a joke poll right?
coming 6th is 'Refugees'
anyone who thinks this poll means anything is a moron
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday November 25 2015, @03:33PM
coming 6th is 'Refugees'
anyone who thinks this poll means anything is a moron
Wonkypedia:
Person of the Year (called Man of the Year until 1999[1]) is an annual issue of the United States news magazine Time that features and profiles a person, group, idea or object that "for better or for worse...has done the most to influence the events of the year".[2]
It's fair to say that refugees have done a fair bit to influence events of the year, although that's more of a Europe thing (equally KFC have done nothing special this year globally, and over here Donald Trump is the "racist guy who looks like Boris Johnson")
Remember Hitler got Man of the Year in 1938, Stalin in 1939 and 1942, King Faisal in 1974. Bin Laden really should have won in 2001.
I'd put my nominations as
Putin
ISIS
Refugees
Hollande (too soon to say if there's a big impact there)
Merkel (strong at the start of the year, not so much recently)
With the top two being Refugees and Putin.
But this is from a european perspective rather than a global perspective. American politicians, certainly not ones who want to be elected in 12 months time, are not influencing world events to any large scale
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday November 25 2015, @09:17PM
Neither "ISIS" nor "Refugees" is a person.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday November 25 2015, @10:21PM
Neither was "The American fighting-man" in 1950, or "The Computer" in 1982, or "The Protester" in 2011. There are more examples.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 25 2015, @10:22PM
In 1983, Time's ____ of the year was the computer.
-- gewg_