Posted AT 9:52 PM EST on 17/10/08
The seventies are looking back at you
Pundits keep comparing the United States now to the way it was in the election year 1976 – Republicans were limping away from a disastrous eight-year term; an energy crisis loomed; the abortion case Roe v. Wade of 1973 had polarized the country; the fight for gay rights continued. But in one arena, things are very different now: political movies.
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