10 Entertainers Democrats and Republicans Love to Hate
Michael Moore
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Michael Buckner/Getty Images Sixty percent of all GOPers reject the filmmaker.
Hot button issues: Criticism of President George W. Bush, healthcare system, corporate America.
Jane Fonda
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Jemal Countess/Getty Images Forty-eight percent of Republicans say they're likely to avoid the Barbarella star's work because of her politics.
Hot button issues: Criticism of Vietnam, Iraq wars
Whoopi Goldberg
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images The View co-host is the third least-liked entertainer in Republican eyes: 47 percent of respondants say they boycott her work.
Hot button issues: Walking out on Bill O'Reilly on The View.
Oprah Winfrey
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images The talk show host — who once claimed she doesn't consider herself political — had never endorsed a political candidate until the 2008 presidential election, when she backed Barack Obama for president. Still, 46 percent of Republicans are likely to avoid her because of her political views, which many claim lean to the left.
Hot-button issues: Endorsing President Barack Obama in 2008
Sean Penn
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Valerie Macon/Getty Images The gun-toting liberal that Republicans love to hate has 40 percent of the GOPers boycotting his work. The actor has joined pro-democracy demonstrators in Egypt, met with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to help free two Americans jailed in Iraq, set up a camp in Haiti for citizens displaced by the 2010 earthquake and defended pal Charlie Sheen after his media implosion.
Hot button issues: Willingness to romanticize dictators like Chavez and Fidel Castro
Mel Gibson
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images The actor-director has fallen from Democrats' graces after a drunken antisemitic tirade in 2006. He was Democrats' least-liked entertainer with 36 percent rejecting him and his projects.
Hot button issues: Racism, homophobia, antisemitism, domestic violence
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images The Republican actor may have ruled as California's governor for two terms but that did not endear him to Democratic voters: 30 percent of Dems in THR's poll say "no thanks" to the Terminator star's projects because of his politics.
Hot button issues: Infidelity, "girlie-men" comment, getting tough with unions.
Tom Cruise
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Scientology apparantly doesn't sit well with Dems: 27 percent of those polled won't take part in any of the "Mission: Impossible" and "Minority Report" star's projects.
Hot button issue: Scientology, criticism of psychiatry and anti-depressants
Kelsey Grammer
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Frasier star Kelsey Grammer is one of Democrats' least favorite entertainers: Fourteen percent of respondants say they avoid his projects.
Hot button issue: Co-founded conservative online network called Right Network.
Jon Voight
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Michael Buckner/Getty Images The Midnight Cowboy star won an Oscar for portraying a paraplegic Vietnam vet in Coming Home (opposite Republican target Jane Fonda), but his real-life tirades against President Barack Obama are among the reasons that 13 percent of Democrats now avoid his work.
Hot button issues: Outspoken Tea Party support
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