Celebrity support, always important in national campaigns, is likely to play an increasing role in the high-cost, heated presidential campaign of 2008.
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The other Republican candidates don’t have quite the same A-list celebrity support. New England Patriots owner Robert K. Kraft and Danny Ainge of the Boston Celtics will support Mitt Romney. Although members of the Osmond family have spoken favorably about Romney, only Alan Osmond has given to his campaign. Actors Rip Torn and Dick Van Patten are backing John McCain.
There is a political divide in one show biz clan. The Baldwin brothers have very opposite political views. Alec Baldwin is lending his support to Hillary Clinton (unlike his conservative TV personality, 30 Rock’s Jack Donaghy). His brother, Stephen Baldwin, recently called in to the Howard Stern show to say that he’ll vote for Huckabee, because he is against gay marriage.
This time round, the chiefs of Detroit’s big three automakers arrived at the nation’s Capitol like supplicants - transported in hybrid cars, rather than private jets.
Freedom’s Watch, the political advocacy group once hailed as the conservative answer to MoveOn.org, may be the latest casualty of the economic downturn.
Some see President-elect Barack Obama’s decision to sit down for his first print interview with Ebony magazine as a symbolic nod to the readers of the historic black magazine.
Mark C. Pigott, 54, isn’t British, but the millionaire trucking industry executive who lives in Washington state has made it his mission to help English institutions flourish.
Susan E. Rice, named today by Barack Obama to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is only 44 years old, but it would seem she’s been preparing a lifetime for her new role.
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