That G.O.P. Debate: Two Footnotes

The reverberations from last Wednesday’s CNBC Republican debate continue to rattle the political china. According to the conventional wisdom—and, let’s face it, the conventional wisdom is more often right than wrong—the big winners were Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, the big losers were Jeb Bush and … well, Jeb Bush, and the big nothings were everybody else, although Donald Trump and Ben Carson got through the night without doing much to either help or harm themselves. That’s the text. Now, two footnotes.

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