Campaign notebook: the importance of the debates

They're really really important.

My old friend Greg Lyle has a poll out. He and I helped start Navigator. He left before I did to start his very successful polling firm. I left when I found out that some there were secretly helping out Big tobacco.

Anyhow. Greg has a poll out and it shows the Tories ahead by one point. This will be a cause for great celebration among some Conservatives,…