Dolly Parton tops list of global figures in US favorability poll

The 11-time Grammy winner had a net favorability of 65%, Obama came second with 14%, while Zelenskyy had 12% For the US public, the feeling that Dolly Parton expressed in her country music chart-topping 1974 classic I Will Always Love You is clearly mutual. A poll of Americans’ opinions about more than 20 international luminaries established as much, with the 11-time Grammy winner and philanthropist leaving her two closest competitors – Barack Obama and Volodymyr Zelenskyy – in the dust by more than 50 percentage points. Of 1,000 people surveyed by the University of Massachusetts and the market research firm YouGov heading into April, 70% of them had a favorable impression of Parton, an 11-time Grammy winner. Only 5% had an unfavorable impression of her, giving her a net favorability of 65%. Obama, the US president from 2009 to 2017, had the poll’s next highest net favorability at 14%. He scored 50% favorability and 36% unfavorability among those surveyed. And rounding out the poll’s metaphorical podium with a 12% net favorability was Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, which has been defending itself from invading Russian forces since February 2022. He arrived at that number afte