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Second Take: Celebrities&#039; support of presidential candidates not enough to sway - Daily Bruin

Second Take: Celebrities&#8217; support of presidential candidates not enough to sway

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The popular vote totals for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primary came within 1 percent of each other. And some scholars suggest one person may have helped push the nomination Obama’s way: Oprah Winfrey.

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Second Take: Celebrities’ support of presidential candidates not enough to sway

By Ishita Gambhir

Oct. 16, 2016 5:41 p.m.