(poll) Oprah effect didn't really sway voters /Chicago Sun Times

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/hunter/706151,CST-NWS-hunter20.article


Or so says a new poll released Wednesday by Lifetime Networks and Zogby International. The pollsters interviewed 500 New Hampshire women -- to look at the views in this early primary state -- and 1,000 other women across the nation to determine their perspectives on the upcoming presidential election.

And what the pollsters found was that Oprah made little difference in the way women are looking at the candidates. In fact, with some groups of women, Oprah's efforts actually backfired.

In New Hampshire, pollsters found one-third of the women under 30 said Oprah "stumping actually made them less likely to support Obama." Seventy-three percent of the other women said it made no difference to their campaign choices at all.

Voters don't want "to have their entertainment figures involved in political support," explained Fritz Wenzel, director of communications at Zogby International.

[aquart]

1. "Less or more likely questions" always skunk.

They don't account for where you were to begin with.

[msongs]

2. even the screaming "fans" at her show tapings are just responding to the applause sign nt

[Lucinda]

3. Everything I read prior to Oprah going out on the road said that

celebrity endorsements are usually a wash. So I'm not surprised at this, but still I do think her participation was beneficial to the Dems as a whole. Anything that gets people out and exposed to the issues is a good thing.

[madrchsod]

4. interesting -mark penn thought that people who watch oprah

would vote for clinton...good thing he did`t get oprah....

[Bitwit1234]

5. She only did it for the publicity...Her show was sinking

she was getting less press time and she can't stand not being OUT FRONT. I think Obama is stupid to let her lead him around. If he is the one running for president he should make sure that HE and not OPRAH should be the center of attention.