Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has won the online
readers' poll for Time Magazine Person of the Year, beating some of the
world's best-known politicians, activists and cultural figures such as
Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai and Pope Francis.
The Vermont Senator garnered 10.2 % of the votes cast by Time readers in the online poll, well ahead of Malala Yousafzai, who was in 2nd place at 5.2 % and Pope Francis who finished 3rd with 3.7 %
The Vermont Senator garnered 10.2 % of the votes cast by Time readers in the online poll, well ahead of Malala Yousafzai, who was in 2nd place at 5.2 % and Pope Francis who finished 3rd with 3.7 %
Bernie Sanders also placed far ahead President Obama (3.5 %) and ahead
other 2016 candidates, including Republican Donald Trump (1.8 %)
and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton (1.4 %), Time said.
No presidential candidate has been named Person of the Year prior to the
end of the campaign, though a slew of presidential victors from
Franklin Delano Roosevelt in (1932, 1934 and 1941), Ronald Reagan (1980,
1984) and Barack Obama (2008, 2012) have earned the distinction, Time
said
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