If you haven't already read James' superb coverage of Iowa, do have a look at Coffee House.
It's certainly better than the nonsense and bias served up by the BBC, for which we are of course all forced to pay under threat of imprisonment. Last night's Ten O'Clock News on BBC1 - the corporation's flagship bulletin - decided that there was only one race, that for the Democrats. Justin Webb, the corporation's US Editor, did not consider it worth mentioning the name of a single Republican, or worth informing his viewers that there will be a Republican contender in November, too. His report was entirely focused on Obama, Clinton and Edwards. It is, presumably, beyond the conception of the BBC that the Americans might return a Republican to the White House after the experience of George W Bush, so why bother mentioning that there was a Republican contest in Iowa, too?
Webb has form. Last April,Mr Webb was being interviewed on Radio Five Live about how the US television networks were losing viewers to cable and the internet: There are three groups of people who don't watch the evening news any more, and they are intelligent people, young people, and right-wing people. Obviously there are some people who fall into all three categories - at least arguably [he added, laughing].
Clearly it is not possible to be Right-wing and intelligent, according to Mr Webb, So no wonder he doesn't think it worth bothering his British viewers with news of the Republican contest.
