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TV debates: what Sarah Palin knew

Lessons for Brown, Cameron and Clegg? You betcha.

By Jon Bernstein

In the next issue of the New Statesman, Dominic Sandbrook has a terrific essay on the televised leaders’ debates, What Ronald Reagan knew. His hook is Reagan’s folksy, charm-laden, policy-lite performance against President Jimmy Carter in 1980 — “There you go again” and all that.

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