Poll: Rush Most Influential Conservative

(AP)  NEW YORK (AP) - 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 percent of those who responded, followed by Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck at 11 percent. Actual politicians - former Vice President Dick Cheney and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin - were the choice of 10 percent each.

Asked to choose from among seven presidents, Americans tapped John F. Kennedy as the one they'd like to see added to Mount Rushmore. Kennedy polled 29 percent, with Ronald Reagan second at 20 percent.

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 percent 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.

[actornaught]

I like the part where the clueless say rush is good at what he does because he makes alot of money (btw, what's the source for how much he makes?...).

On that basis, Britney Spears should sing the lead in every opera...

[P0STING_AWAY]

by picklepants7 December 2, 2009 5:51 PM EST
and you think you're smart for listening to olberdumb, chris matthews, garafalo, moore, ed shultz, etc..? ha ha ha ! sounds like you're dumber than a bag of nails. rush makes more sense and more logic than all those combined. you're just not smart enough to comprehend it. and that goes for the rest of you.
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Of course Rush makes sense .... to a MORON.
Rush Limpballs is Fat and Stupid and OBNOXIOUS.
Claiming that the majority of people is not "smart" enough to
understand this buffoon's drivel is RIDICULOUS.
Let me guess .... you think Palin is a winner too ......

[bot14]

Of course you don't value Conservative commentators, you are reading the LSM (lame stream media), CBS.

[noloyalisti]

You can always tell someone who is listening that moron because they are as dumb as a bag of hammers. And whatever they think is right, just like the idiot. To think that the jerk has so much power in a country where all that matters is money. And dollars equals votes and influence. Man are we in trouble.

[atheria]

You might want to get a lawyer if you're going to defame someone. It's illegal - how about that, a liberal who doesn't know the law? Go figure.

[kgkgs]

Rush Limbaugh's success is due to his links to Communism, as was Ronald Reagan's similar ties to the Soviet Union and the corrupt media!!!

[devilfly1]

Come on,

Let face the truth that Rush Limbuagh is an ignorant radio talk. He has an agrophobia, which he never go outside for a fresh air. All he do is sit and whine to everyone.

Did you know that 97 percentage that newspapers were based on lies?

Rush has no respect for his country.

Get a life Rush!

[1qazxsw21qazxsw2]

You wrote four incomplete, incomprehensible sentences in your post. I would make sure I could at least write a complete thought before calling someone an "ignorant radio talk."

[RightWing-N-WrongWing]

Rush is too Pro-republican, want to hear the most influential conservative? Listen to Michael Savage.... The man is brilliant and is not so party-vested. He is just a conservative.

[formrusmcsgt]

Poll: Rush Most Influential Conservative
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This says a lot about the number of xenophobes and paranoid among us.

Rush is a professional chicken little playing on the fears of others and doing very well at it, apparently.

Nothing more and nothing less.

[DoubleHappiness88]

**Rush Most Influential Conservative**

Now that Conservatives have identified their problem, I hope thy will correct it.

[mtjoel]

This poll is right on. Rush Limbaugh is the most important conservative voice in America not only for his high intelligence, high conservative integrity, and great sense of perspective, but also because, contrary to what liberals would have you believe, he loves his country and the citizens of this country much more than his adversaries do, and patriotic Americans really respond to that. Rush is the second most important conservative of my lifetime, even more important than William F. Buckley Jr., second only to Ronald Reagan himself. I'm a conservative atheist personally, but yet I can say enthusiastically, God bless Rush Limbaugh!

[Stop_the_crying]

Someone left the door open at the loony bin again. Rush is a morron. He is a radio talk host, he gets paid based on the crap he mutters. The greater the controvercity the greater the dollar value he puts in his pocket. He's in to it for the Money.

[1qazxsw21qazxsw2]

Someone left the door open at the loony bin again. Rush is a morron. He is a radio talk host, he gets paid based on the crap he mutters. The greater the controvercity the greater the dollar value he puts in his pocket. He's in to it for the Money.
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I believe it's moron...moron. Also, which state is controvercity in?

[erichsh]

Fat! Drug user! Idiot! Blowhard! Racist! Every time Rush aggravates a liberal to the point they hurl childish streams of insults with reckless abandon, he has performed a commendable public service. Keep influencing those libs, Rush!