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As a break from this season's Presidential campaign, you might check out R. J. Cutler's unreality series "American Candidate," on Showtime on Sunday nights. It has the virtue of featuring none of the candidates who are actually running for President; nor does it have any snide real-life running mates who stoop to such tactics as taking words like "sensitivity" out of context in order to make the other guy sound like a New Age pantywaist--and actually seem to win points in some circles by doing so. "American Candidate" isn't a polemical show; it doesn't attempt to win anyone over to a particular point of view. Rather, it aims to highlight the political process and perhaps ...

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