Time named President Barrack Obama its Person of the Year—a choice that's not surprising, given the president's hard-won re-election, but unusual nonetheless. Time managing editor Rick Stengel revealed the magazine's choice on the Today show.
“[Obama] is the symbol of the new America,” Stengel told Adweek, citing the president’s popularity with millennials, minorities and college-educated women. “The next four years will see him fulfilling the original vision that he was elected for.”
While nearly every president has appeared on the Person of the Year list since it began in 1927 (and two-term presidents have generally appeared twice), Stengel said that it’s an anomaly for a president to be given the title in both of his election years.
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