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| FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2009 file photo, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh talks with guests in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Ron Edmonds, File) |
NEW YORK - By a wide margin, Americans consider Rush Limbaugh the nation’s most influential conservative voice.
Those are the results of a poll conducted by "60 Minutes" and Vanity Fair magazine and issued Sunday.
The radio host was picked by 26 per cent of those who responded, followed by Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck at 11 per cent. Actual politicians - former Vice-President Dick Cheney and former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin - were the choice of 10 per cent each.
Asked to choose from among seven presidents, Americans tapped John F. Kennedy as the one they’d like to see added to the Mount Rushmore national monument, which portrays huge sculpted faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. Kennedy polled 29 per cent, with Ronald Reagan second at 20 per cent.
With all the talk on the news about whether Americans should have the choice of a government-run health insurance plan in any health care reform, only 26 per cent of those who responded said they felt confident explaining the "public option" to someone who didn’t know about it.
Half of Americans chose laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as a ceremony in which they’d most like to participate. That swamped the other choices: lighting the Olympic torch, tossing the coin to open a Super Bowl, starting the race at the Indianapolis 500, ringing the opening bell at the stock exchange and throwing out the first pitch at the World Series.
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The random national telephone sample of 855 adults was conducted by CBS News from Nov. 6-8. The margin for error is plus or minus three percentage points.
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