Right Wing News emailed more than a hundred left-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of who they considered to be the "greatest figures of the 20th century". Representatives from the following 23 blogs responded...

Roger Ailes, AintNoBadDude, Angry Bear, Scoobie Davis, Democratic Veteran, Electrolite, The Hamster, Micah Holmquist's Irregular Thoughts And Links, Mark Kleiman, Left Wing Liberal Commie Agitator, Liberal Oasis, Mac-a-ro-nies, News From The Front, normblog, Notes on the Atrocities, The People's Republic Of Seabrook, Public Nuisance, Silt, Skippy The Bush Kangaroo, The Talking Dog, TBogg, Unmedia, We're Left, They're Wrong

The number of right-wing & left-wing bloggers participating was down significantly from last week. There are a variety of reasons why that might have happened, but I suspect the massive blackout might have had something to do with it. Had I thought about that a little earlier, I would have extended the deadline. However, that's water under the bridge now.

All bloggers were allowed to make anywhere from 1-20 selections. Rank was determined simply by the number of votes received. Without further adieu, the "greatest figures of the 20th century" according to the left side of the blogosphere are as follows (with the number of votes following each selection)...

18) Lech Walesa (3)
18) Alan Turing (3)
18) Harry Truman (3)
18) Eleanor Roosevelt (3)
18) Pablo Picasso (3)
18) Thurgood Marshall (3)
18) Lyndon Johnson (3)
18) Henry Ford (3)
18) Thomas Edison (3)
18) Marie Curie (3)
18) Jimmy Carter (3)
15) The Wright Brothers (4)
15) George Orwell (4)
15) Vaclav Havel (4)
12) Teddy Roosevelt (5)
12) Bill Clinton (5)
12) Louis Armstrong (5)
9) George C. Marshall (7)
9) John F. Kennedy (7)
9) Dwight Eisenhower (7)
8) Crick & Watson (8)
7) Mahatma Gandhi (10)
6) Jonas Salk (11)
5) Winston Churchill (13)
4) Nelson Mandela (14)
3) Albert Einstein (15)
1) Franklin Roosevelt (20)
1) Martin Luther King Jr. (20)

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