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Election Special: Political Conventions
On this week’s election special we look at the history of the Democratic and Republican presidential nominating conventions. The Democrats have convened this week in Philadelphia and picked Hillary Clinton as their nominee for November’s presidential election. The Republican party met last week in Cleveland to nominate Donald Trump as its standard bearer. The first…
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Celebrities in Politics: Stars in Office
Today is the 30th anniversary of actor and director Clint Eastwood being elected as mayor of Carmel, California. Here are some things you may not have known about celebrities in politics. The state of California, rather obviously, has had a disproportionate share of celebrity politicians. Actor and dancer George Murphy was among the first notable…