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30 April 2010updated 27 Sep 2015 2:21am

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart does Bigotgate

Aka “Clustershag to 10 Downing Street”.

By Jon Bernstein

Andrew Stephen, our man in Washington, wrote last week that he doubted “whether one in a hundred Americans knows that British voters go to the polls on 6 May”. Well, a few more do now, thanks to Gillian Duffy, Bigotgate and Jon Stewart’s subsequent take on Comedy Central’s Daily Show.

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