Originally Posted by rubicon

Tal: I wanted to avoid this but you know that many people know that young Democrats were influenced by Sean Penn, George Clooney, Sarah jessica Parker, Oprah Winfrey, Matt Damon and many more liberal Hollywood types who all campaigned for Obama in 2008

That's true. There are however almost as many vocal Republican backers in the Hollywood community. Probably not as many now though with Romney's positions on abortion and gay rights.

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Voting is not based on IQ or any other qualification except that you have some kind of Valid Voting ID. We would not be a democracy really if you started putting various qualifications on who gets to vote.

I do not know anyone that would ADMIT to being swayed by Clint Eastwood or anyone else's endorsement. People do vote though on who has backed whom.

Oprah W. made President Barack Obama into the star he is by her endorsement in 2008. He was just a law professor/community organizer and writer of a few books. There were hundreds of these in the many law schools across the US.

perhaps i am too jaded having grown up in essex county, nj where it was who you knew and how much street money was floating around that got folks to go to the polls on election day! of course, not much had changed when i moved to my current county where votes are still influenced by who you know and how active the 'machines' are - from the federal level to the local level! google mayor thomas whelan, a family 'uncle' for some insight! did you ever get paid on election day for walking the downtown streets and distributing 'palm cards'? ah - the good old days!