Next Us Leader Will Be Decided by 'Voters Ignorant Beyond Belief'

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The Dirty Race for the White House Channel 4, 8.00pm Dead Ringers US Election Special BBC2, 9.00pm It isn't often that right-wing journalists astonish me. The devil, in my experience, hasn't given them a new tune in years. As politics goes, they do paint-by- numbers, generally in shades of black. Peter Oborne was hardly of the sunniest disposition last night, but his analysis of American presidential politics was stunning.

This was less because of the argument, powerful as it was, than because the speaker is one of the most intensely conservative hacks there is. To put it another way, if the likes of Oborne are alienated from the American way, the Americans have more than fromage-munching surrender simians to fret about.

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Next Us Leader Will Be Decided by 'Voters Ignorant Beyond Belief'

"The greatest democracy in the world?" he inquired. "They have to be kidding." In Oborne's account, a campaign based on fear, lies and black propaganda would be decide...

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