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As the whole world focused on America’s Inauguration Day last week, we asked you about the out-going and in-coming Presidents, George W Bush and Barack Obama.

As we know, the former President’s mangling of language quickly became known as ‘Bush-isms’ and they continued right to the end of his second term.

So we gave you a list of five to choose from - and ‘They mis-underestimated me’ was a clear winner with 34% of you, followed by the more naff ‘Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech’ garnering 22%.

In contrast, nearly 60% of you believe the greatest challenge ahead for new President Obama is the US economy…

While more than 70% are sure that he will honour his commitment to close Guantanamo Bay within 12 months. 

View the detailed results of these polls here.

 

The results are in!

ABC NewsRadio asked you to tell us what you thought was the most important sports story of 2008. And in the year of the Beijing Olympics, nearly thirty percent of listeners voted for Australian Matthew Mitcham’s greatest-ever Olympic dive, followed by Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt’s three gold medals and American superfish Michael Phelps’ haul of eight gold medals. Certain events in tennis and racing came in next!

Here’s the complete list of the 10 most important sports stories of the past 12 months, as voted by you, ranked in order:

1. Matthew Mitcham’s greatest-ever Olympic dive 28.6%
2. Usain Bolt’s amazing 3 gold medals 21.7%
3. Michael Phelps, superfish, wins 8 gold medals 13.6%
4. Wimbledon Men’s Final (Nadal V Federer) 9.9%
5. Bart Cummings, master trainer, wins his 12th Melbourne Cup (with Viewed) 6.9%
6. Hawthorn beats (hot favourite) Geelong in the AFL Grand Final 6.4%
7. Manly beats (hot favourite) Melbourne in the NRL Grand Final 4.4%
8. Adam Gilchrist, wicket-keeper extraordinaire, retires 4.2%
9. Tiger Woods takes the US Open (literally on one good leg) 3.5%
10. Ben Cousins resumes his footy career (at Richmond) 0.7%

View the results of our other web polls here.