Rating last night’s debate (UPDATE: AHHHNOLD OFFICIALLY ENDORSES MCCAIN)
Samantha Sault at The Weekly Standard blog has a link roundup of blogger reax to last night’s GOP debate, where there were some testy exchanges between the two frontrunners.
Tonight’s GOP debate (THUR AM UPDATE: TRANSCRIPT LINK ADDED)
It starts in just a few minutes and will be airing on CNN. I’m in the middle of a few different things right now, so I won’t be liveblogging it, but I’ll catch the highlight reels later. Feel free to post your comments about the debate in this thread.
About closed primary voting
Questions are surfacing in the blogosphere about whether or not Florida’s primary was a truly “closed” primary since John McCain rec’d 17% of votes from people identifying themselves as Independents (and 3% as Dems). Captain Ed explains here that what happened in Florida was perfectly normal under closed primary rules: