Once again, John Hawkins provided an outlet for the rest of us (or at least the 82 of us from 80 blogs who responded) to give our opinions on 35 different people in the right-of-center sphere. To tease you on the results, I’ll give the top 5 (give or take ties) most popular and least popular, and note that John has the top 10 of each:
Most popular (strongly like plus like votes):
Tied for 4th (74 votes) – Paul Ryan, Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh
Tied for 2nd (76) – Marco Rubio and Michelle Malkin
1st (80) – Thomas Sowell (notably, nobody dislikes him; the only reason it’s not 82 is 2 people didn’t give an opinion on him)
Least popular (strongly dislike plus dislike votes):
Tied for 4th (64) – Lindsey Graham, David Brooks and Pat Buchanan
3rd (67) – David Frum
2nd (69) – Arnold Schwarzenegger
1st (71) – Meghan McCain
On page 2 (it’s been a while since I’ve done that split; those of you reading on the feed will need to click here), I’ll give you the Rasmussen-defined “Passion Index” (strongly-like percentage less strongly-dislike percentage) rankings for everybody in the poll:
