Or, the choice of Time Magazine readers anyway. Seems that Bernie Sanders, who at this time last year was a marginal figure in American politics, “has topped Hillary Clinton as the people’s choice in Time magazine’s annual Person of the Year vote.”
It is an online poll, however, which measure intensity as much as anything else and Sanders supporters are nothing if not intense. But he did lap the field coming in with “10.2 percent of the vote [defeating] the co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, who got 5.2 percent, Pope Francis (3.7 percent) and President Obama (3.5 percent). Former Secretary of State and current Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton picked up just 1.4 percent, while Republican nominee leader Donald Trump garnered 1.7 percent.”
The magazine’s editors will have the final say and there winner will be announced Wednesday on the Today show.
Previous winners include Richard Nixon and George W. Bush (twice) but that was before the advent of online polls.
