All this is is one more "current stereotyped popularity contest"

in almost any poll of this nature, the average person-on-the-street will name the most famous person that they sort of 'like' at the moment. They almost never pick some truly important, creative person who is not in the **headlines**.
   Start a Mudcat thread on the topic where folks have time to think and you'll get interesting answers!

(I have lost a lot of respect for Wolf Blitzer on CNN since he started fronting for that stupid "Web Question of the Day" where they ask you to email YOUR opinion on some inane topic that most humans should have NO serious opinon on. "Should Condeleeza Rice have her passport revoked?" "Should we put Saddam back in that hole and drop a grenade in with him?")..well, you get the idea...