The Associated Press-AOL News poll on who people think were the villains and heroes of the last year was conducted Dec. 19-21 and is based on telephone interviews with 1,004 adults from all states except Alaska and Hawaii. The poll was conducted by Ipsos, an international polling firm.

Results were weighted to represent the population by demographic factors such as age, sex, region, race and income.

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. 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.

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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

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_President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, 5 percent

_Kim Jong Il, North Korean leader, 2 percent

_Donald Rumsfeld, 2 percent

_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

_George Clooney, 1 percent

_Nancy Pelosi, 1 percent

_Bill Clinton, 1 percent

_Colin Farrell, 1 percent

_Oprah Winfrey, 1 percent

_Mel Gibson, X percent

_Paris Hilton, X percent

_Terrell Owens, X percent

_Britney Spears, X percent

_Angelina Jolie, X percent

_Arnold Schwarzenegger, X percent

_Santa Claus, X percent

_Bill O'Reilly, X percent

_Martha Stewart, X percent

_Matt Damon, X percent

_Other, 15 percent

_None, X percent

_Not sure, 20 percent

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

_George W. Bush, 13 percent

_Soldiers/troops in Iraq, 6 percent

_Oprah Winfrey, 3 percent

_Barack Obama, 3 percent

_Jesus Christ, 3 percent

_Bono, 2 percent

_Angelina Jolie, 1 percent

_Al Gore, 1 percent

_Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1 percent

_Colin Powell, 1 percent

_Mel Gibson, 1 percent

_George Clooney, 1 percent

_Bill Gates, 1 percent

_Donald Rumsfeld, 1 percent

_Bill Clinton, 1 percent

_Jimmy Carter, 1 percent

_Martin Luther King, 1 percent

_Condoleeza Rice, 1 percent

_Billy Graham, 1 percent

_Warren Buffett, 1 percent

_Pope Benedict, X percent

_Hillary Clinton, X percent

_Brad Pitt, X percent

_Paris Hilton, X percent

_Nancy Pelosi, X percent

_Tiger Woods, X percent

_John McCain, X percent

_Sylvester Stallone, X percent

_Tom Cruise, X percent

_Lance Armstrong, X percent

_Donald Trump, X percent

_Mother Teresa, X percent

_Ladainian Tomlinson, X percent

_Brett Favre, X percent

_Other, 25 percent

_None, 1 percent

_Not sure, 27 percent

3. If you had to choose, which of the following celebrities would you say was the best role model this year?

_Oprah Winfrey, 29 percent

_Michael J. Fox, 23 percent

_George Clooney, 12 percent

_Angelina Jolie, 8 percent

_Brad Pitt, 2 percent

_Tom Cruise, 2 percent

_Katie Holmes, 2 percent

_Mel Gibson (volunteered), 1 percent

_George W. Bush, 1 percent

_Bono, (volunteered), 1 percent

_Laura Bush (volunteered), X percent

_Sylvester Stallone (volunteered), X percent

_Paris Hilton (volunteered), X percent

_Bill O'Reilly (volunteered), X percent

_Other (volunteered), 11 percent

_None, 1 percent

_Not sure, 7 percent

4. And, if you had to choose, which of the following celebrities would you say was the worst role model this year?

_Britney Spears, 29 percent

_Paris Hilton, 18 percent

_Mel Gibson, 12 percent

_Tom Cruise, 9 percent

_Michael Richards, 6 percent

_Nicole Richie, 5 percent

_Kevin Federline, 4 percent

_Lindsay Lohan, 3 percent

_Angelina Jolie, 2 percent

_Katie Holmes, 1 percent

_Rosie O'Donnell (volunteered), 1 percent

_Sean Penn (volunteered), X percent

_George W. Bush (volunteered), X percent

_George Clooney (volunteered), X percent

_Miss USA (volunteered), X percent

_Other (volunteered), 2 percent

_None, X percent

_Not sure, 8 percent

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