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 The fans are clear, Tom and Margo are the best! They received 167 votes or 23% of the total. Only two other couples received more than 100 votes: Jack and Julia with 120 votes and Lily and Holden with 112 votes. Fourth place went to Jack and Carly with 86 votes.
Margo/Tom/Emily was voted as the best triangle by a wide margin - 250 votes or 34% of the total. Second place was close with Jack/Julia/Carly winning at 19% or 191 votes. Third and fourth place; Camille/Brad/Ben received 174 votes or 17% and Carly/Jack/Hal received 143 votes or 14%. Fans enjoyed Margo Hughes the most this past year. She received 24% of the votes (242). Second place went to Lucinda Walsh with 154 votes. Third went to Carly with 140 votes. Fourth and fith place: Lily Snyder and Julia Lindsay. What would we do without Jack Snyder? Receiving 39% of the total votes (292) he is clearly a fan favorite. Second place went to Holden Snyder with 93 votes, third to John Dixon with 75 votes.  For 1998, Stenbecks rule! David (315 votes) and James (244 votes) know what it takes to be a great villian. Third place: John Dixon with 88 votes (truly one of ATWT's all-time great villians!)
It's tough being a kid on soaps. Fans feel Craig Lawlor (Adam) needs a bit more practice as he received top billing this year (115 votes or 17%). Hang in there Craig. Doing much better than last year with fans, but not quite there yet, Lesli Kay Sterling (Molly) was chosen worst actress by a mere three votes over castmate Terri Conn. Terri (she plays Katie) received 89 votes. Third place went to Valerie Perrine (Dolores, 78 votes). Was there any doubt Emily and Tom would be top choice for worst couple (especially after reading Margo and Tom was voted best couple?!). They were chosen by 26% of the fans. Second place went to Carly and John with 12% of the total votes. Dolores Pierce is definitely not pleasing fans at this point. She received 354 out of 897 votes (39%). Second place went to Katie Peretti with 213 votes or 24%. Another tough race. John/Barbara/Lisa came out ahead with 147 votes. Georgia/Eddie/Katie won second place with 136 votes. Thirty-two different storylines or happenings were named in this category. It's a good thing many fans enjoyed this story as it got a lot of airtime. Receiving 26% of the total, Carly's quest for $50 million was voted as the best story of 1998. Three other most often mentioned stories: the Jack/Julia romance, Emily going after Tom, and Camille's breast cancer.
Polling for the best and worst of 1998 on As The World Turns was done via e-mail. Over 13,000 votes were received in seventeen categories. This poll is not scientific and reflects only the opinions of those ATWT fans who chose to participate. The results cannot be assumed to represent the opinions of ATWT fans in general, nor the public as a whole. Certain characters or actors were chosen to be invalid for particular categories. Here is an explanation:
Voting guidelines were sent to all those polled. In case of confusion of how votes were tallied, here are the guidelines on what votes were deemed invalid and were not counted:
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This category was a real nail-biter! 
Another extremely close race. Think back to when the character of 
Not even John and Carly's hilarious nuptials in the Caribbean could match Lily and Holden's January re-marriage. Lily and Holden received 668 votes or 72% of the total. Carly and John came in second with 183 votes or 20%.
She was once James Stenbeck's lover. Her mother was involved in a love triangle many years ago with one of Oakdale's most respected families. Today, when she sets her sights on a man she'll go as low as possible to snare him. Tom Hughes was the object of her desire in 1998, and that made 
They just shouldn't have done it, fan's said. What shouldn't they have done? Have Sam and Kirk leave and disappear off the docks. Three other stories were mentioned most often, but by less than half of the fans who voted for Sam and Kirk's leaving/disappearance. Those stories are: Emily's pregnancy, Emily and Tom sleeping together, and the James/Lucinda marriage. Funniest write-in: Lucinda's personality going wimpy. Saddest write in: Nancy's lack of story.
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