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 percent even said a
celebrity endorsement would make them less likely to favor a candidate. Just
two percent said they were more likely to favor a hopeful on the basis of a
celebrity's thumbs-up.
Boldface names have featured
prominently in the run-up to the November 6 elections, with the likes of George
Clooney supporting Barack Obama and Clint Eastwood siding with Republican rival
Mitt Romney.
In a statement, CBS News said
pollsters contacted a random sample of 1,218 adults across the United States by
telephone from August 22-26, with an overall margin of error of plus or minus
three percentage points.
On other topics, 70 percent of
respondents said they did not believe Scientology was a true religion, and 41
percent said they would alert the authorities if they saw a Mexican family
crossing the border illegally.
Nineteen percent said they
they'd prefer their children to marry into the Obama family, rather than wed a
Kennedy (18 percent) or a member of the British royal family (16 percent).
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