Ashley Tisdale and Vanessa Hudgens took part in an interview with Fox 101.9 with Matt and Jo in Melbourne, Australia, while the pair were in the country to promote 'High School Musical 3: Senior...

Barack Obama won election to the Illinois Senate in 1996 with no help from Richard Daley. The Chicago mayor offered no assistance to Obama in 2000 when he ran unsuccessfully for Congress. Most of Daley's friends, family and associates backed a different candidate in 2004 when Obama won the U.S. Senate primary.

Yet to have heard Obama's rivals on the presidential campaign trail tell it over the last many months, the two Chicago Democrats have been virtually joined at the hip for years.

There may be no more enduring caricature in politics than that of the Chicago machine led by a powerful mayor with life or death say over the careers of an army of the city's elected officials. But that simplistic image never really applied to the complex, cordial but historically less than intimate political relationship between the men who are now Chicago's two most prominent Democrats.

Before Obama hit the political big time four years ago, he was largely irrelevant to Daley and even bucked the mayor's perceived interests on occasion without repercussions. For the most part, Daley's interests were more parochial than Springfield or Washington.

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In the High School Musical franchise, Vanessa Hudgens (as Gabriella) defeats Ashley Tisdale's Sharpay when it comes to the affections of Zac Efron (as Troy).

But Tisdale is seeking revenge in the only realm more important than love: fashion!

The cast of High School Musical 3: Senior Year has been traveling the globe together, promoting their movie and smiling on every red carpet ever invented.

While both Vanessa and Ashley look pretty in every picture, there can only be one premiere princess. Study the looks of each actress below (first in London and then in Melbourne) and respond to our poll...

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