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The Democratic debates just might make for compelling reality TV

Two nights. Twenty contenders. Dozens of promises. One election that's still 17 months away.

Viewers, steel yourselves for the return of "The Campaign," with its ever-expanding roster of candidates, awkward meme-producing moments and more confabs than can be explained by voodoo economics, fuzzy math, binders full of women or baskets of deplorables.

Television's longest-running reality competition commences this week when NBC News, MSNBC and Telemundo host the first round of Democratic debates from Miami. And if this run-up to the primaries is anything like the last one, we'll have at least 10 more of these media-sponsored spectacles - "Naked and Afraid" for the clothed and ambitious - before the party chooses its nominee for president.

The fun begins this week when a

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