In a completely unscientific poll, Whitmore topped our list of the best movie or TV presidents.

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In the June 25 Gallup poll, four in 10 Hispanic voters list unemployment and economic growth as their greatest concern.

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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson interestingly appears on the poll -- the only one on the list who's never been elected to public office.

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Citigroup, top of Mr Spitzer's scourge-list, came top of the poll, incidentally.

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Spielberg narrowly edges out Winfrey on our list, which was compiled by E-Poll Research, an Encino, Calif.

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Though the chick flick star topped the list in appeal, scoring a 46 on E-Poll's likability index, her March 26 cover of People sold 13% below average, the weekly's worst-selling issue during the sixth-month period.

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There's one glaring omission from the 23 names on the straw poll ballot: Jeb Bush, who asked not to be on the list.

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Take the list of names ridiculed at Deadspin and originally assembled in a Parents magazine poll.

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Meanwhile the US state department has indicated it could remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism if the north recognises the outcome of the poll.

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The Vanity Fair list, which has been published for the past 71 years, is compiled from a poll of style gurus, designers, retailers, editors, socialites, photographers and entertainers in the US and beyond.

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