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Tebow tops Obama in holiday poll

Published Nov. 21, 2012 12:00 a.m. ET

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President Obama beat Mitt Romney in the general election earlier this month, but finished well behind Tim Tebow in another November vote — a poll seeking America's most preferred Thanksgiving dinner guest.

According to a survey conducted by Nielsen and reported in the New York Post, the New York Jets' backup quarterback was the preferred Turkey Day companion of 23 percent of voters — tops on the hypothetical guest list.

Obama received 5 percent of the vote.

The president also lost out to Big Bird and Lady Gaga.

Tebow actually will be in millions of homes on Thursday — on TV. His Jets are playing the New England Patriots.