Celebrity prez poll predicts tight race in 2008

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"Eastwood, famous for playing tough guys on the screen, served as mayor of Carmel, Calif., from 1986 to 1988. (He also got into the White House in the 1993 thriller 'In the Line of Fire,' where he played a down-at-the-heels Secret Service agent guarding the president against an assassin played by John Malkovich.)

"Eastwood led with 32 percent of the vote, narrowly edging out Winfrey — the Chicago-based Queen of Talk, and an often-talked-about possible political candidate — who came in second with 30 percent."

The results of the poll show a rather tight split between the center-right - represented by Eastwood at 32 percent and Mel Gibson at nine, for a total of 41 - as opposed to the left and far left - represented by Winfrey, Angelina Jolie, Sean Penn, and Barbra Streisand who totaled 39 percent. Sixteen percent of the sample chose none of the above. That leaves four percent unaccounted for - presumably due to rounding and/or scattered write-ins.