1. Okay, let's step a little outside the Oprah question & consider celebrities in American politics.
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3. In general, I'd say GOP more likely to recruit celebs than Dems, even though Hollywood is supposed to be super-liberal. Why?
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4. Dems are party of government: they believe in administration & wonky solution. GOP, hostile to gov't, prefers non-wonks who share values & work on gut instincts.
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5. So a big hurdle for Oprah will be nature of Dems, who I think are more likely to go with Harris, Gillibrand or Warren.https://newrepublic.com/article/146537/democrats-wont-nominate-oprah-president …
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Would Jesse Ventura count?
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Not as a Dem. won as Reform party, no?
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Celebrities are are free as anyone to run for office, but maybe not start out with president.
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That guy who was Gopher on the Love Boat....
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id say even better examples are tom osbourne, jim bunning and jc watts who came from the world of sports, which gets coded as less "political" among voters than hollywood celebrities do https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Osborne … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._Watts …https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bunning …
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the closest democratic equivalent i can think of is heath shuler who i think doesn't fit since shuler was mostly known as a failure as a professional athlete
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Besides Franken, I see Ben Jones, Clay Aiken, Heath Shuler, Bill Bradley. Do astronauts count as celebrities? Then John Glenn, too.
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John Hall.
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