Bush is top villain — and hero

A poll conducted recently by the Associated Press and AOL News found that 25 percent of Americans view President Bush as their top villain, while about half as many — 13 percent — see him as their top hero.

Among "villains" who received 1 percent of the vote were Satan and Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president who compared President Bush to the devil in a U.N. speech last fall.

Results of the poll were weighted to represent the population by demographic factors such as age, sex, region, race and income. The following categories include the names of all who received 2 percent or more of the vote, as well as some who received 1 percent.

No more than one time in 20 should chance variations in the sample cause the results to vary by more than plus or minus 3 percentage points from the answers that would be obtained if all people in the U.S. United States were polled.

Names of celebrities that respondents volunteered were not on the list of possible answers in the poll question.

There are other sources of potential error in polls, including the wording and order of questions. Results may not total 100 percent because of rounding. An "X" signifies less than 1 percent.

1. If you were asked to name a famous person to be the biggest villain of the year, whom would you choose?

— George W. Bush, 25 percent

— Osama bin Laden, 8 percent

— Saddam Hussein, 6 percent

— President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, 5 percent

— Kim Jong Il, North Korean leader, 2 percent

— Donald Rumsfeld, 2 percent

Those receiving 1 percent included Satan, Hugo Chavez, O.J. Simpson and Donald Trump.—John Kerry, 1 percent

— Rosie O'Donnell, 1 percent

— Dick Cheney, 1 percent

— Hillary Clinton, 1 percent

— Brad Pitt, 1 percent

— Tom Cruise, 1 percent

— Satan/The Devil, 1 percent

— Donald Trump, 1 percent

— O.J. Simpson, 1 percent

— Hugo Chavez, 1 percent