PRINCETON, N.J., June 10 (UPI) -- U.S. Republicans say a conservative talk show host, a former House speaker and a former vice president are the party's main spokesmen, a Gallup poll indicated.
Democrats overwhelmingly say President Barack Obama is their party's main spokesman, Gallup results released Wednesday indicated.
Republicans named Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich and Dick Cheney as the "main person who speaks for the Republican Party today," poll results showed. Democrats, meanwhile, were most likely to say Limbaugh, followed by Cheney.
That three men were mentioned indicates the lack of consensus of who speaks for the party, Gallup said. Forty-seven percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents could not come up with a single name in response to the party spokesperson question -- and Limbaugh, Gingrich and Cheney were mentioned by only 9 percent or 10 percent of Republicans.
While 67 percent of Democrats said the president was the party's main spokesman, Republicans were more likely to list House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, the Princeton, N.J., polling agency said.
Only 17 percent of Democrats could not name an individual as the person who speaks for their party, the poll indicated.
Results are based on nationwide telephone interviews with 1,015 adults conducted May 29-31. The margin of error is 3 percentage points.