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[Dedalus]

Johnny Carson liked Letterman better than Leno, and admitted this on several occasions. He wanted Letterman to get the Tonight Show, and still sent him jokes occasionally when he was writing in retirement.

The people who say Leno is a Republican, however, are just plain wrong. He is openly a Democrat, and has talked in interviews about how much he hates Bush and how it depresses him that he is seen as the "conservative" one when compared to Letterman. I guess he's friends with Arnold, but Arnold is basically the farthest left of any prominent Republican in the country--I'd bet he would have been willing to run as an Independent against a Republican incumbent (provided he could have gotten any contributions by doing so).

Letterman may seem more liberal because he's "edgier," but there's really no evidence about what his personal beliefs are, and absolutely no rationale for saying that he's more or less progressive than Leno when it comes to the issues.