Is Oprah abandoning Obama?

Oprah Winfrey will not be publicly endorsing Barack Obama for re-election in 2012, a source told Pop Eater. 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, 2011. 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, 2011. After a big debut that averaged 583,000 viewers in prime-time the first week, OWN has seen its ratings fall below those of the channel it replaced, the Discovery Health Channel.