Premier Paula Cox’s popularity seemingly knows no bounds after she came top in a poll assessing the potential of 13 high-profile politicians.Seventy-eight percent of people named Ms Cox when asked to choose the best five politicians from a list compiled by pollsters Mindmaps.United Bermuda Party Senator Michael Dunkley came second with 63 percent, with Progressive Labour Party backbencher Dale Butler third on 53 percent.Yesterday, The Royal Gazette reported Ms Cox had a favourability rating of 62 percent, the highest for any Premier since this newspaper began polling in 2004; and a performance approval rating of 40 percent, better than anything Ewart Brown managed after the 2007 general election.Another poll released earlier this week, by Research Innovations, gave the Premier a favourability of 84 percent.In the latest survey, voters were asked which five out of 13 legislators from all three political parties have the “greatest future potential as politicians in Bermuda”.A breakdown of results shows Ms Cox’s popularity is strongest among blacks, among whom she scored 88 percent.But her score of 61 percent among whites was also very good, beaten only by Sen Dunkley’s 64 percent. Ms Cox also came top in every age group, showing particularly well among 35- to 44-year-olds, with 86 percent; and among both men (75 percent) and women (80 percent).Sen Dunkley bucked the trend by scoring 59 percent among blacks, better than Deputy Premier Derrick Burgess (52 percent) and PLP Senator Kim Wilson (26 percent). The only other UBP MPs to score more than 30 percent among blacks were Leader Kim Swan (33 percent) and deputy Trevor Moniz (32 percent).Among whites, Mr Butler (43 percent) did better than several UBP MPs, including both Mr Swan (36 percent) and Mr Moniz (25 percent).Other findings in the poll included:l Mr Moniz was the only UBP MP to do better among blacks (32 percent) than whites (25 percent);l UBP MP Grant Gibbons (21 percent) and Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards (23 percent) fared worst among the black community;l Sen Wilson (14 percent) and Mr Burgess (16 percent) came last among whites;l Mr Swan scored highly among 18- to 34-year-olds (48 percent), but struggled badly among 35- to 54-year-olds (18 percent);l UBP veterans John Barritt (54 percent) and Dr Gibbons (50 percent) had a large chunk of their support among seniors;l Bermuda Democratic Alliance MP Shawn Crockwell was backed by just five percent of seniors but 36 percent of 18- to 34-year-olds;l Mr Burgess was more popular among women (43 percent) than men (33 percent);l Dr Gibbons was more popular among men (38 percent) than women (30 percent).The poll of 400 registered voters took place between January 10 and January 19, and has a margin of error of 4.9 percent.