Scarlett Johansson: Bigger than Obama?

Published January 4, 2008 5:00am ET



In-demand actress (and, we might add, Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive for 2006) Scarlett Johansson was spotted at the Barack Obama rally in Iowa on Wednesday night.

But more than a few heads were scratched wondering why the young beauty didn’t address the crowd, Oprah-style.

We hear that the Obama camp was concerned that Johansson could upstage their candidate and didn’t want to take the chance; although she did speak at a rally in Coralville earlier in the day.