I suspect that if the Republican debate of yesterday had been held at some other time, it would have swirled and focused a bit more on this line of argument:

As it were, they were stuck hemming and hawing a bit at Obama in relation to Osama.  Not that that’s the be all and done all– but from an accumulation of 270 electoral votes the American electorate past the ringer of a smaller electorate of delegation accumulation — the gut doesn’t figure that well.  Though, the backlash for the Obama’s Photo Op uses will grow and creep into the body politick — so they have that going for them.

The domestic issue and scary Joker fell down sometime in the debate.

A question about some coverage of the big debate, though…

While candidates in presidential debates often need no introduction, the participants who filed onto the stage at the Peace Center for the Performing Arts offered an exception to that rule. There were two former governors, a member of Congress, a former senator and the former chief executive of a chain of pizza restaurants — all of whom round out the lower rung of an unsettled Republican field.

Fine.  And…

Tim Pawlenty, a former governor of Minnesota who was among the best-known of the candidates on hand, dropped bits of his own biography into many of his answers in an effort to introduce himself to voters beyond the normal collection of early-voting states.

Tim Pawlenty is cited as the best known of the five.  If I had to rank them by name recognition, I think I would go with Ron Paul at number one, Rick Santorum at number two, and then… ?

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