I will never vote for any celebrity candidate.

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66. Reagan was governor of California from 1967-1975.

He made a couple of unsuccessful attempts at being the Republican presidential nominee in 1968 and 1976. Four years later, he finally succeeded, so I’m not sure I grasp how he “opened the floodgates for non-politicians,” since he was every inch a politician.

I see the shift to a greater number of non-political candidates as a post-Reagan, post-Bush I occurrence, notably with Ross Perot’s run at the presidency as a third-party candidate in 1992. A cadre of right-wingers discovered an obscure law that would enable them to force a recall election of Democratic Governor Gray Davis, which resulted in Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger grabbing the governorship in a crowded field that included Arianna Huffington. By the time Arnold departed, California was through with celebs, and went back to “old reliable” Jerry Brown.

I feel about Oprah as you do: I’m willing to listen. It’s probable that we’re headed for an eventual complete integration of entertainment and politics — in hopes that such a merger would be acceptable to the masses, and since politics has been it’s been pushed at us like entertainment for many years now.

I just located a blurb online about another Republican action-star’s potential aspirations. Note:
https://www.google.com/amp/people.com/politics/celebrities-who-ran-for-office-elected/amp/
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Could The Rock be America's next commander-in-chief? The wrestler-turned-blockbuster actor has talked about running for office before, telling PEOPLE he'd consider a run for the top job in the future. The future, it seems, is quickly approaching: The "Run the Rock 2020" campaign committee has been filed with the Federal Election Commission, making Johnson an eligible candidate in the 2020 race.
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