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I've always gone for Peter Graves as the Democratic expy of Reagan, i believe there were a couple of attempts to get him to run for elected office but he wasn't interested. I think he fits the bill a little better than an A-lister, which Reagan himself wasn't.
Burt Lancaster another for his long history of activism.
Sort of deliberately missing the main point of the thread, but I do think "Democratic Reagan" is a tough one to rate, career-wise, because conservative actors just out of rarity tend to be B-listers (or C-listers, today) but also because liberal actors of all lists seem reluctant to actually run for stuff - I think there is a Nixon-to-China element of only right-wingers really having the leeway to surmount the baggage of a Hollywood career.
Franken, sure, but how did his career turn out exactly?