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Who won the first GOP Presidential Debate?

Who won the debate?

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It was on tonight on Fox News. The candidates were Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Tim Pawlenty, Rick Santorum and Gary Johnson.

If you watched, who do you think won?
 
lol what? I didn't know that was on
 
Ron Paul, Johnson are not for me
Pawlenty struck me as not genuine.

For me it was toss up between herman cain and Santorum both made points I agreed with
 
I felt the same about Pawlenty. Something about him was fake.

Herman Cain stole the show, in my opinion.
 
Not a very popular debate, I see. :)
 
I suspect that the candidates that didn't show up were the real winners.
 
Mellie said:
I felt the same about Pawlenty. Something about him was fake.

Herman Cain stole the show, in my opinion.
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it will be interesting to see if he becomes this cycle's Huckabee
 
Santoram is a ****ing idiot in my book.

But Cain stood out to me... he could be a real republican contendor if he goes on like that.
 
I missed it.......will tell you when I watch the replay.
 
Me for spending my time productively instead of watching it.
 
Be nice, watching debates is educational even with quasi-candidates. Think of it as a mock trial, stressing mock.
 
Chappy said:
I suspect that the candidates that didn't show up were the real winners.
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I don't know about that. The focus group on Fox was made up of voters from SC and they were kinda pissy that the others didn't feel like this debate was important enough to show up.
 
Pawlenty's closing remarks were so robotic. He's at the bottom of the list for me.
 
Drat, I honestly didn't realize the debates had begun so much. So many "suspected" candidates hadn't announced yet that I had figured it must not have been the start of the primary season yet. I'll have to search for the video and watch this weekend.
 
Mellie said:
I felt the same about Pawlenty. Something about him was fake.

Herman Cain stole the show, in my opinion.
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I have always thought that about Pawlenty... It's like I can't figure out why he wants to be president or what he's doing.
 
Mellie said:
For those who missed it...

The Top 5 Clips From the GOP Presidential Debate | The Blaze
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Just watching those, Herman Cain strikes me as the weakest of the bunch. Not much to judge the others on, Cain got most of the video attention. The lack of experience and extreme abortion position referenced in the first video I think would hurt him badly in a general election.

Not really appropriate for me to pick winners and losers since these are not to folks I wil be voting for anyway and my selection criteria would be different from those who might vote for one of them, but Cain strikes me as the one who would be the least thread, after Paul, in a general election against Obama.
 
The whole who won or lost a debate thing is silly. There is no uniform way to determine winners or losers, either what they said resonated with you or it didn't. It is wide open to confirmation bias and is completely subjective and will vary from person to person.

Basically the question boils down to "Who said what you wanted to hear best?"
 
I'm counting the Ron Paul votes as 1. Why on earth are non-members allowed to vote?
 
Redress said:
Just watching those, Herman Cain strikes me as the weakest of the bunch. Not much to judge the others on, Cain got most of the video attention. The lack of experience and extreme abortion position referenced in the first video I think would hurt him badly in a general election.
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The focus group of Republicans from SC seem to disagree with you.

I don't think the abortion thing is a big deal. It's not like if he gets elected he'll be able to make abortions for incest and rape illegal. That would have to go through the courts who would never allow it. So it's really a non-issue.
 
Mellie said:
It was on tonight on Fox News. The candidates were Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Tim Pawlenty, Rick Santorum and Gary Johnson.

If you watched, who do you think won?
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All guys are good, but Sarah is better!
 
Mellie said:
Nah. She's not presidential material.
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She is the best, only she can run in 2012 and win, the US need new ideas and new thinking after too liberal Clinton, stupid Bush and socialist Obama.
 
Mellie said:
The focus group of Republicans from SC seem to disagree with you.

I don't think the abortion thing is a big deal. It's not like if he gets elected he'll be able to make abortions for incest and rape illegal. That would have to go through the courts who would never allow it. So it's really a non-issue.
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Herman Cain hasn't a chance in Hell of winning the Republican nomination for president. Don't kid yourself those people in the focus group were simply saying they would vote for a black man - nothing more. None of the people you saw last night will be the Republican nominee. Trust me.
 
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