celebrity candidate

[Dave Wilton]

>From the Doylestown, PA The Daily Intelligencer, 28 Sep 1962:

"Michener might take some measure of hope from the recent success of young
Ted Kennedy, who as the younger brother of a President and Attorney General,
also faced a celebrity-candidate problem." (Michener is author James A.
Michener who ran for congress in that year.)

>From the New York Times, 14 June 1964 in an article by David Broder:

"Hopefully, the celebrity candidates would be found, as time goes on, not
just in the realms of sports and entertainment and derring-do, but in the
arts and science, the professions and industry."

[Photo Caption; same article] "CELEBRITY CANDIDATE-Movie actor George Murphy
meets a voter. Campaigning is costly; a 'name' provides a head start."




-----Original Message-----
From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Charles Doyle
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 6:42 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: celebrity candidate

In what looks like an authentic "snippet," Google Books gives ". . . the
emregence of the celebrity canditate" from William J. Keefe, _Parties,
Politics, and Public Policy_ (Holt, 1972), p. 144. Clearly, the phrase
"celebrity candidate" is being used generically--not in reference to a
particular individual.

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:42:02 -0600
>From: Dennis Baron <debaron at UIUC.EDU>
>Subject: celebrity candidate

>anybody got an early date (pre-2004) for "celebrity candidate"?

>
>Dennis Baron

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