[AU72]

I thought Ted Cruz won the debate if you score the debate old school, meaning getting across your POV on the issues without serious counter arguments.

For the rest it was pretty much a verbal brawl.

[9YearLurker]

Cruz didn’t have any counterarguments because he didn’t figure out to name other candidates in his responses.

If he had, he would have got much more time and been able to show himself to be much more interactive—rather than just an ideas salesman on the political QVC channel.

[IChing]

Nonsense, many of them made great points. But voters instinctively sense that Trump is really the only one who puts action and results ahead of politeness and policy wonkishness.