In this paper, we establish some local universality results concerning the correlation functions of the zeroes of random polynomials with independent coefficients. More precisely, consider two random polynomials f = n i=1 ciξiz i and f = n i=1 ciξiz i , where the ξi andξi are iid random variables that match moments to second order, the coefficients ci are deterministic, and the degree parameter n is large. Our results show, under some light conditions on the coefficients ci and the tails of ξi,ξi, that the correlation functions of the zeroes of f andf are approximately the same. As an application, we give some answers to the classical question "How many zeroes of a random polynomials are real ?" for several classes of random polynomial models. Our analysis relies on a general replacement principle, motivated by some recent work in random matrix theory. This principle enables one to compare the correlation functions of two random functions f andf if their log magnitudes log |f |, log |f | are close in distribution, and if some non-concentration bounds are obeyed.