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This was really good, well done Alabama GOP! C-Span says the replay starts at 9:56ET and lasts approx. 1 hour. I timed it at closer to 80 min. If there are still undecided voters in Alabama, Mississippi and, don't forget Hawaii, I hope they watch this, both speeches. I don't know how many there in the audience went in thinking they were undecided. With the limited seating maybe all the tickets went to those who'd already decided. Judging from this thread none posting here were undecided prior to their posts. But then FR voted early, the results are well known here, and the responses on live threads have become fairly predictible.

I stumbled on a local TV feed of this literally seconds before it started and didn't learn it was on C-Span until Santorum was half done and plan to record the repeat. I really liked the format. One candidate comes out and gives a speech of their choice. Then three panelists came out and each asked one question, all of them good and covering important issues. The candidate answered each however he chose. At the end the emcee repeated Bill Buckley's axiom that we should vote for the most conservative candidate who could win and asked the candidate to tell why he was that person. The candidate's family in attendance were announced. They then cleared the stage and did the same with the second candidate, who had been kept in some proverbial sound proof booth until then. The 3 panel questions and the final emcee question were identical. Rick went first, Newt second. Their attire was different, their delivery was different, their content was different and their messages were different. Romney and Paul were absent. Both Rick and Newt spent relatively little time discussing the former, certainly more time discussing Obama. It was as if Paul didn't exist! For anyone truly undecided there was a lot here on which to base your choice. But don't decide based on how the audience reacted to it, what the media writes about it, nor even based on what is written here about it. Watch and decide for yourself! If you missed it live and miss the replay on C-Span I presume they'll get the video up there in time. The video's not up yet, but their page for the program is here.