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Democrat Barack Obama left Colorado for Beverly Hills for a fundraiser with Barbra Streisand. NBC's Chris Jansing found such starpower irresistible. She filed a breathless In Depth bold-faced type feature on Hollywood's celebrity divide. In Obama's corner she included Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert De Niro and Forest Whitaker and Ben Affleck and George Clooney. Republican John McCain attracts an older posse of stars, including Tom Selleck and Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone. Jansing tried to make a serious point to conclude a flippant feature. The paparazzi and the political press are never invited to cover such glamorous fundraisers because there is political risk to hosting them. Such publicity might place the celebrity-schmoozing candidate on the wrong side of the regular-vs-elite cultural divide. It is a "delicate but lucrative balancing act."
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