"Celebrity testimonials may help (sell) erectile dysfunction products, but in politics, they're mainly eye-candy for the media," Kaplan said after Kerry conceded defeat.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=5&u=/afp/20041103/lf_afp/us_vote_hollywood

I can never understand why someone thinks they can sway anyone with a brain that functions vote just because they are famous and tell you too. People seem to be able to process information on their own without being helped along by these so called celebs- I mean come on, let me change my vote because Leonardo or affleck says too.

Christian Science Monitor has a column that touches on this.

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At the same time, some observers suggest that Kerry's positions on those issues may have mattered less than the fact that he simply seemed culturally alien to many rural and lower-income voters - as does the Democratic Party as a whole.
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"In the Southern states, there's a kind of antielitism which you would think, economically, would make these people pro-Democrat, but it's a cultural antielitism," says Andy Taylor, a political scientist at North Carolina State University. "Kerry personified the type of person that this philosophy does not like - an aristocratic, northeastern intellectual."

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Jrv- I love the don King avatar- he the man