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Hollywood ending not in script for "'elites"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/n…"Congress: The Sequel" is shaping up as one blockbuster that Hollywood would rather not greenlight.
The liberal-leaning entertainment world, long a fertile source of campaign funds and star-power endorsements for Democrats, faces a major script rewrite on Capitol Hill as Republicans prepare to take control of the House of Representatives and boost their Senate caucus in the next Congress.
Democrats, aided in large measure by Hollywood cash, held their ground in states such as New York and California, but the next Congress will include dozens of conservative newcomers from the heartland with little cultural, political or geographic sympathy for the entertainment and media centers on the coasts. How that gulf will affect policy on issues such as taxes, government spending and intellectual property rights remains uncertain.