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Politicon is an annual, non-partisan political convention in the United States. It's official objective is to bring "Republicans, Democrats, and people of all political stripes together to banter and spar over the most topical issues in smart and entertaining ways that often poke fun at both sides of the aisle." It has been called the "Comic-Con of politics" and the "Coachella of politics". It was held in Los Angeles in 2018, with the next one to be held on October 26–27, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee at The Music City Center. Politicon 2019Politicon 2019 TwitterList of Participants and ForumsList of Strange...

It's a plethora of political mash-ups — former Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), Fox News's Sean Hannity, former FBI Director James Comey and ex-White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will all be under one roof for an upcoming Washington-meets-Hollywood-inspired convention. The line-up for the fifth annual Politicon was announced Tuesday. Organizers for the October 26 and 27 event in Nashville say it will "bring together some of the biggest names in politics and entertainment for an unorthodox and highly entertaining weekend of political discourse." SNIP According to a promotional site for the convention, of which The Hill is a media...

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This weekend the annual Politicon political convention returns to Pasadena, California. There will be many panels and discussions but how seriously should we take them? Well, judging from Politicon 2016 perhaps we should take it all with a yuuuge grain of salt. A stroll down Memory Lane reveals that the discussions and most panelists were laughably off the mark especially as to anticipating what is now viewed as the greatest political upset in American political history a few months after that convention. Let us now observe how the Politicon "experts" of 2016 opened themselves up to become the laughingstocks of 2017 starting with...

John Ratzenberger played one of America's most beloved sitcom characters, Cliff the Mailman, on "Cheers" for 11 years. Since then, he has become one of the most-employed voices in Pixar movies, with a role in the latest, "Finding Dory." But he's also a longtime Republican activist who will be appearing in four panels at Politicon starting Saturday and running through the weekend in Pasadena, California. LifeZette talked to the actor, 69, about his opinions on the issues involved in two of his four panels at the weekend gathering -- his passion for the Second Amendment ("Tons of Guns") and his...