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washingtonpost.com - 12/17/2008
Brand Name Politics
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How shocking, some folks are saying, that Caroline Kennedy might use her storied last name to land a Senate seat.

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The point Kurtz misses on Sweet Caroline
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Howard Kurtz , one of my favorite media analysts, makes one good point about name-brand politics and misses another completely in his column today.  The building of dynasties in American politics does have a long and broad history, but the issue of Kennedy has a unique component: How shocking, some folks are saying, that Caroline Kennedy might use her storied last name to land a Senate seat. I don’t recall hearing a whole lot of carping when George Walker Bush, son of George Herbert Walker Bush, became an instantly plausible presidential candidate because his dad had served in ...

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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: barack_obama Rod_Blagojevich) Caroline Kennedy and Brand Name Politics How shocking, some folks are saying, that Caroline Kennedy might use her storied last name to land a Senate seat. I don't recall hearing a ...

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