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In her new documentary, "Diary of a Political Tourist," Alexandra Pelosi, who spent nearly two years chasing after the Democrats who were themselves chasing after the 2004 Presidential nomination, asks Howard Dean, as he's hurrying down a New York City street in 2003, why he's carrying his own bag. Can't he get anyone to do it for him? she says. Dean replies cheerfully that it's a point of pride with him. Pelosi's film is a follow-up to her 2002 "Journeys with George," a self-consciously goofy, boys-on-the-bus romp through George W. Bush's campaign, and it will air on HBO next week, at around the same time that another political sequel will be shown on the Sundance Channel: "Tanner on Tanner," Robert Altman and Garry Trudeau's four-episode follow-up to their 1988 HBO series "Tanner '88," premieres October 5th. In a scene in "Tanner '88," the story of a fictional Democratic Presidential candidate named Jack Tanner, an aide points at a wire photo of Tanner carrying his luggage and declares, "Carrying your own bag is the wrong symbol at the wrong time. It says that you either can't, or won't, delegate. It says Jimmy Carter." Suffice it to say that such parallels and instances of overlap among all four works abound, partly because, while political campaigns may be endlessly interesting, the number...
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