Written by Janet
Republicans in Congress rated 52% losers, while 38% said they were winners. The biggest losers of the year were the White House Party crashers, and received a 70% loser rating.
South Carolina Republicans also came out poorly in the survey, as Rep. Joe Wilson and Gov. Mark Sanford were both rated as “losers” by more than 60 percent.
Michelle Obama was rated as the year’s big “winner,” getting the “winner” vote of 73 percent of those surveyed. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came in a close second, with 70 percent calling her a “winner.”
President Barack Obama and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor were the only other political figures to get picked as 2009 “winners” by more than 50 percent, with Obama getting 58 percent and Sotomayor receiving 57 percent.
On a list of neither winners or losers were, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Fox News host Glenn Beck, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin .
More than 1/4 of those polled had no opinion of Reid, Beck or Bernanke, all of whom were picked as “winners” by fewer than 40%. Reid was the only one of the three who was seen as a “loser” by more than 40%, getting 42%. And only 5% had no opinion of all about Sarah Palin, but the rest were split evenly. But 49% rated rated the former Republican governor as a “loser” in 2009, while 46 percent said she was a “winner” in a year that saw her quit her post as governor and sell more than 1.5 million copies of her book.
