Nobody dominated the final pre-Iowa Republican debate, but it was a spirited affair that will likely affect the outcome of the caucuses. The questions from Fox News were a bit all over the place and sometimes seemed to be asked more from the perspective of the Obama White House than from that of the GOP base. (Islamophobia is apparently more of a concern than a nuclear Iran; and Obamacare, Main Street economic growth, and the national debt apparently don’t merit much attention.)
Still, it was a pretty good debate, and here’s how the various participants (in ascending order of their Iowa poll numbers) seemed to fare:
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