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Top 10: Best Fake Politicians

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Jack Stanton Primary Colors was the hottest book in the mid-'90s, supposedly a thinly-masked allegory to the first Clinton presidential run. John Travolta did the story one better and played Stanton as a heavy-set, Southern-drawling, graying oaf.


Dave Kovic Dave remains one of Kevin Kline's most endearing turns, as Dave Kovic, the man thrust into the limelight after he's hired covertly to be the President's stand-in after the real one has a stroke while having an affair. Sigourney Weaver is pretty smoking in this one too.

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