Poll: Bush, Hillary Most Admired

For the second year in a row, President Bush and U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton are the most-admired man and woman in America, according to CNN/USA Today/Gallup's annual year-end survey on the topic.

Twenty-nine percent of Americans named Bush as the most-admired man, followed by Secretary of State Colin Powell and Pope John Paul II, who tied at 4 percent each. Bill Clinton was named by just 3 percent.

Among women, Sen. Clinton led the pack, picked by 16 percent. Talk show host Oprah Winfrey followed with 7 percent, with first lady Laura Bush in third place at 6 percent. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice percent came in fourth with 4 percent.

Coincidentally or not, Mrs. Clinton is also the Democrat most favored to challenge President Bush in 2004.

Though she continues to insist she isn't running, oddsmakers in London boosted Clinton's chances of winning the White House last week from 12-to-1 to 9-to-1, giving her a better chance of becoming president next year than John Kerry, Dick Gephardt and Joseph Lieberman.

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