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Celebrity endorsements mean little to US voters, survey finds
Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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Posted By:Photoonist, 10/1/2012 7:33:52 PM
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| For all their visibility along the campaign trail, A-list celebrities hold little sway over the way Americans vote, an omnibus poll for CBS News and Vanity Fair magazine has suggested. Eighty-nine percent of respondents said celebrity endorsements of a particular candidate made no difference to them when it came to putting an X beside a name in the voting booth. Three per cent even said a celebrity endorsement would make them less likely to favor a candidate. Just 2 per cent said they were more likely to favor a hopeful on the basis of a celebrity's thumbs-up.
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Comments: If it weren't for Clint Eastwood this poll, the Vanity Fair article and this AFP article would never have been written. It's all about dissing Republicans and their supporters. These same sources, CBS & Vanity Fair, will continue to tell us how intelligent leftist Hollywoodites are without one shred of evidence.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
StephaniePlum, 10/1/2012 7:40:12 PM (No. 8902988)
Madonna must be sooooo disappointed ! /SP/
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Daisymay, 10/1/2012 7:42:47 PM (No. 8902991)
Why in the world would WE care about an endorsement from someone who makes their money playing other people? Like I would really care what Lindsey Lohan or Snoop doggghgggyyy says! Jeesh!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
4Justice, 10/1/2012 7:46:50 PM (No. 8903000)
FTA: Nineteen per cent said they they'd prefer their children to marry into the Obama family, rather than wed a Kennedy (18 per cent) or a member of the British royal family (16 per cent).
Not much of a choice there, is it??? I would rather not have my child marry into any of them but I guess the less of the two evils is that at least with Obama's family, the worst you could get is Marxist indoctrination and maybe a little puff puff on the funny cigarette. With the Kennedy clan, you could end up with all sorts of mayhem (across the board)!!!!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Sherlock, 10/1/2012 7:53:39 PM (No. 8903019)
Well, no! because the liberal ones are all paid whores.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Wetlandz, 10/1/2012 7:59:44 PM (No. 8903031)
I've been looking for a link showing Frank Luntz focus group toward the Samuel l Jackson ad, I heard it was very bad.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mitzi, 10/1/2012 8:11:30 PM (No. 8903049)
Not just endorsements, celebrities themselves mean very little to some US voters.
Celebrities were held in quite low regard when I was growing up and that stuck with me.
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MDConservative, 10/1/2012 8:54:10 PM (No. 8903113)
Let's pretend they only matter as social proof for a point or two...close election...they matter, especially to the "moron vote".
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
wendybird, 10/1/2012 9:09:31 PM (No. 8903131)
I hope this information doesn't damage their self-regard.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Bjnealeigh@aol.com, 10/1/2012 9:13:29 PM (No. 8903136)
Actually, if there is a celeb involved, I assume they are wrong. None of them have any common sense, they are full of,themselves as is Obambi. They think they are smarter and more superior that the rest of us. NOT listeningot Madonna, Barwaaa, or any other nit wit famous person.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ilovedogs, 10/1/2012 9:34:42 PM (No. 8903162)
Good news right?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
reddfroge, 10/1/2012 9:57:18 PM (No. 8903214)
If you are a family of 4, out of work for 3 years, with NO hope of a job, do you REALLY care what Cher thinks is important???
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
RussVet, 10/2/2012 7:53:53 AM (No. 8903705)
All the admired America loving celebrities of WWII are gone and what is left is just a bunch of anti-America secular communist homo luvers .. Who cares what anyone says that has two brain cells and spends their life pretending to be someone they are not, most don't even have a high school diploma .. Seen any new movies lately, mostly they suck ... Starting to like the cartoons I take my granddaughters too
Clint Eastwood is one of the last great ones... He stated to the empty chair "If they cant do the job you got to let them go" .. got to luv that
Old man with broom
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