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Labour election co-ordinator Douglas Alexander likens David Cameron to Richard Nixon, who lost the 1960 US presidential election following the first-ever televised debate. The Tory leader's invoking of the "Great Ignored" is like Nixon's claim to be defending the "Silent Majority", he adds. At last, some old-time glamour to cut through this focus group-led, sterile world of modern politics. Lord Mandelson has taken to the dancefloor at the spectacular Tower Ballroom in Blackpool. Following in the footsteps of national treasure Bruce Forsyth, the peer, a self-confessed Strictly Come Dancing fan, demonstrated some moves. Is this a metaphor for Gordon Brown's performance in the TV debate? Will the "clunking fist" down his brawling gloves and waltz around his opponents?
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