The CNN talking heads before the debate said that the audience was mainly 'traditional' republicans, i.e. GOPe/RINOs. Knowing that beforehand, I actually expected the audience to be worse than they are.
that’s the whole problem theres too many damn traditional Republicans around. I don’t really consider free Republic a Republican website. I consider it a conservative website where we vote Republican out of necessity. And the last congressional election may have changed to that too