Oprah Winfrey will not be publicly endorsing President Barack Obama for re-election in
2012. Back in 2008, the billionaire talk show host endorsed then-Senator Barack Obama,
the first time she had publicly taken sides in a US presidential election. For 2012, much
has changed for Oprah. the source told Pop Eater. “She now has her own cable channel
called OWN that has been struggling to find an audience she isn’t going to do anything to
alienate them.” Winfrey’s daytime talk show will end its 25-year run on May 25. She will
then spend the majority of her time at the helm of OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, a
joint venture with Discovery Communications which debuted on Jan. 1. After a big debut
that averaged 583,000 viewers in primetime the first week, OWN has seen its ratings fall
below those of the channel it replaced, the Discovery Health Channel. In March 2011,
Forbes magazine estimated Winfrey’s net worth to be $2.7 billion.
