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Most Europeans are worried by George Bush's foreign policy - his pronouncements on the 'axis of evil', his rejection of Kyoto and his insistent unilateralism. At least one in three Americans consider themselves conservative. Like Bush, they go regularly to church, are against gun control, and regard the UN as an irrelevance. But is America really as conservative as George Bush makes it look? Would a Democrat victory in the forthcoming elections shift the centre of American politics to the left in a sustainable way? John Micklethwait, US editor of The Economist, author of The Right Nation: Why America is Different, talks to Stanley Greenberg, former pollster and campaign advisor to Clinton, author of The Two Americas: Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break it. Chair: Michael Portillo, MP.