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   > WASHINGTON (AFP) - Nick Clooney, father of Hollywood heartthrob George   
   > Clooney, has failed in his bid to win a seat in the US House of   
   > Representatives.   
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   > Nick Clooney, a septuagenarian television presenter and a brother of the   
   > late singer Rosemary Clooney, was defeated Tuesday in his effort to win an   
   > open House seat in a northern Kentucky.   
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   > He lost to Republican business Nick Davis, despite generous campaign   
   > contributions from such Hollywood glitterati as Michael Douglas and Renee   
   > Zellweger.   
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   > Despite that high-profile backing, it was an uphill battle for Clooney in   
   > solidly Republican Kentucky, where only one member of the state's   
   > eight-person US congressional delegation was a Democrat.   
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   > Clooney's actor son George, who made his name in the medical series " ER",   
   > so far has found a different outlet for his political interests, last year   
   > co-producing the "K Street" TV series about the Washington political   
   > establishment, which aired on the cable television network HBO.   
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   I wonder if he'll try again. It wasn't a landslide victory.   
      
   Feesha   
      
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