The NH Debates

The candidates and reporters stumbled out of bed this morning to sit through another debate--at 9:00 local time--after a 9:00 p.m. debate last night. Notice the bags under their eyes?

The ads that had been absent from the airwaves appeared in a flood during these debates--nearly every ad during those hours was political, most of them favoring Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman (the two who got the biggest bump from the debates, according to the tracking polls). Perhaps my favorite political ad line: "The world's literally collapsing. Where's the conservative we can trust?" Literally??

Right now the local NH station is deconstructing the debate. One local correspondent who appeared on the moderators panel sums it up nicely: "The closer you are to the candidates, the less you are able to comprehend what is going on." The reporters' dilemma!