Some of the shouting back and forth was over the top.
It was a very pro-Romney crowd, so he had the advantage of having an audience to cheer for and back him up.
Overall, I think Cain perhaps had the best debate. He handled the attacks on his 999 plan reasonable well and continues coming across as a very likable, happy warrior. Listening to Herman right now on CNN, I am impressed by his willingness to just very candidly admit he misspoke or made a mistake.
Perry had his best debate yet, though he was a little too combative. Still, much better debate for Rick and I think it will give him some momentum.
Lastly, much as I detest Ron Paul, I think his plan to eliminate entire departments was a winner. I’d never vote for him in the primaries, but I thought he did better than usual.
2/3 rds of the electorate is still busy doing other things right now. The political addicts and extremists are making all kinds of projections and assumptions and calling them fact, based on these low volume debates. But in the real world, the true picture will emerge and shock a lot of people here who believe that the rest of the world thinks like they do.
I can predict only one sure thing, which will be sometime in the middle of October next year, as well as who the nominee will be by July.
As far as who won the debates tonight or any of the previous nights? I would say that nobody won, since the agenda that will pick our next candidate for us, will have very little to do with who can BS better than all the others.
Longbow is correct; it was a very pro-Romney crowd. CNN clearly had it stacked. I think that Newt won the debate. He was right on in trying to point out Anderson Cooper’s objective of provoking bickering.