Cruz was 4th in total time talked....not exactly ignoring. You guys tried to pull that last time but when the total minutes were accumulated, Cruz was in the top half and you guys were like.....oh crap. Sorry. I guess we were complaining for nothing.
The moderators' procedure was to decide whom they would call on for a given issue, rather than opening anything up for discussion. Frankly, it's ridiculous that there's a moderator at all. The effect with Cruz last night was that there were a few particular issues for which they wanted his comment, so his time was concentrated on those, however much or little it was. It wasn't a general picture of the guy who's polling #3 in most places.
By contrast, they seemed to give Carly a whack at almost every issue, because of the woo-woo-woman thing. She was good on the abortion videos—although, considering the history of positions, I doubt her reliability on life or moral issues—but I found her ranting and artificial on most other things. I found I was glad whenever she stopped talking. And she hasn't got the smile thing down. She's not going anywhere—she's like the horsey cousin you have to invite to the party.