Campaigns don't come dumber than this OUR television executives know more about politics than most Australians, me included. Those who run the free-to-air networks Ten, Nine and Seven chose to run Sunday night's leaders debate on their secondary channels. There was no way they were going to allow the debate to ruin the flow of good ratings that The X Factor and Australia's Got Talent bring with them. They picked in advance that this debate would be the most boring in the history of Australian elections over the past three decades. Poor silly me! I was looking forward to the occasion. Here was the first opportunity for our leaders to go head to head.