Celebrities on the stump: How they fared

Sure, they're ordinary citizens like us, just average folks participating in government. On the other hand, they are the kind of people who can tell the candidate they're endorsing, "Just a sec, babe, Spielberg has me on call waiting." Here are some of the celebrities who endorsed candidates this year, and how their endorsees fared.

CELEBRITY          WON   LOST

ALEC BALDWIN        1     0
JUDY COLLINS        1     0
ROBERT REDFORD     16     5
CHARLTON HESTON     8     4
BARBRA STREISAND    2     2
GLENN CLOSE         0     1
HEATHER LOCKLEAR    0     1

Source: Hotline

Stop the presses!

It's not exactly a repetition of DEWEY BEATS TRUMAN, but the European edition of USA Today did seem to suggest an election outcome that was at some divergence with how things actually played out. Unless this was one of those gag newspapers that somebody printed to razz Newt Gingrich.

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BEST ADS OF '98 Republican Mark Neumann ridicules Senator Russ Feingold's (D) support of methane testing by showing a fuddy-duddy scientist running around a field trying to catch cow farts in jars. Neumann lost, but this hilarious ad is a winner.

An ad for Jim Bunning (R) featured black-and-white mute shots of a screaming Scotty Baesler (D). The ad sparked controversy, with wags saying the images made Baesler look Hitleresque and would backfire. But Bunning is going to the Senate.

In South Carolina, Governor David Beasley (R) didn't have worse enemies than his former friends. Victorious challenger Jim Hodges (D) used testimonials of state Republican officials refusing to vote for Beasley, calling him unscrupulous and a liar. Brutal.

Jeb Bush (R) became Florida Governor with ads chiding Lieutenant Governor Buddy MacKay (D) for his position on taxes. Teachers, cops and the elderly declare, "He's not my Buddy!" The one kind word? A crook thanks MacKay for increasing taxes on burglar alarms.

Cover Date: November 16, 1998

Gingrich resigns
• Fall of the house of Newt
• Alas, poor Gingrich, I knew him well
• Goodbye, brave Newtworld
• Engineer, stop this train
• A deal cutter with a bit of a temper

Election '98
• The GOP thought it was its year
• Oops! The top gaffes of Election '98
• Minnesota's excellent Ventura
• Body slam
• Big winners, hot issues
• Our subtleties explained
• Give 'em Hillary

Corporate welfare
• Fantasy islands and other perfectly legal ways that big companies manage to avoid billions in federal taxes
• How they work

• Bombs away? U.S. Mulls a strike against Saddam
• Political watch
• Notebook

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