THE MIGHTY RUSSIAN WAR MACHINE:

[T]he whole thing seems to be backfiring. In this, the year of the leak, the hackers are contributing to a phenomenon -- raw transparency -- that should make democracy stronger.

Taken together, this year's big breaches -- nefarious and otherwise -- are bringing a dose of reality to this reality television campaign, exposing what the candidates or their aides say and do when they think no one is looking.

And they have pulled back the curtain on the political-celebrity mythmaking that the American media too often abets.

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