Live blog from the New Hampshire 2012 presidential debate
June 13th, 2011
11:20 PM ET
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Live blog from the New Hampshire 2012 presidential debate

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- @PeterHambyCNN: aaaand Romney escapes unharmed. Win.





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9:38 p.m. ET - Pawlenty: Coke.






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9:12 p.m. ET - Cain: Deep dish.









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9:01 p.m. ET - Q: Social Security?

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8:53 p.m. ET - Paul: Blackberry


8:50 p.m. ET - Gingrich: American Idol.






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8:38 p.m. ET - Q: TARP?






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- Q to Santorum: Leno or Conan?

















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- @stevebruskCNN: Herman Cain walks in to debate site.


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soundoff (991 Responses)
  1. Sean

    We are massively in debt. Why does the DoD need 22 billion more dollars per year?

    June 13, 2011 09:26 pm at 9:26 pm |
  2. Mike

    These debates are pointless unless it is a none-on-one debate. You will never hear a candidate get enough time to answer a complex question because of how many there are. Wouldn't it be great if there was an 8 person elimination bracket and you could vote after each one-on-one debate which candidate won the debate? These aren't even real debates! It's just a couple of candidates answering some questions and not responding to the answers other candidates are giving. POINTLESS!

  3. Gregg Macdonald

    Do you feel that the constitution is an ever green document

  4. Larry France Brandon Florida

    How do any of the candidates plan to deal with a democratic Presidential war chest of over a billion dollars?

  5. anthony

    Just wanted to know if any of the candidates, in the wake of the energy crisis would have the ability to tell the OPEC countries that we do not need them for a while and use our own resources here in our great America?

  6. Greg

    My question is for Michelle Bachmann: does she believe that the people who applauded no-sharia law in the United States are Jingoistic, Xenophobic, or Moronic?

  7. Ameena

    To everyone in the debate: Why was Muslims In America even a topic? As an American Muslim, I speak on behalf of the majority of Muslims In America. It is topics like these that make us feel ostracized. There are extremists in every religion. A topic like 'Muslims In America' does not make me feel included amongst the American people. And people wonder why Muslims are not patriotic. It is not that they don't support the American government, if the government did not label only Muslims by their religion than I think they would feel like...American?

  8. Kelly

    I haven't had a chance to watch yet, but they always minimize Ron Paul at these things. Most audience members are too stupid to understand him, and the media is scared of him. Even Tim Russert, who I liked, once said he had no relevance. How sad.

  9. Darwin

    What will you do to end... limit... agricultural subsidies?

  10. sharon Thompson

    There is no way the Republican way for health care for the elderly would work. The tiny amount allowed is not going to buy good health care – no one could buy it for this tiny amount. It would not cover office visits..In reality the Republicans are saying old people do not need to live. The Republicans do not care about any human other than the rich, corporate ones. Bush started all of the trickle down problems in this country..not one person could repair the damage done by Bush to our country. Other countries have much better health care for all their citizens..The Republicans only want for themselves and their personal favorite corporations. Not one up there tonight speaks for the rights of those of us that worked and paid into social security and medicare...The Republicans and not for the citizens that actually do the work in the USA. My question is..which of them would take the tiny amount of $$ for health care and go find what they can and then try to maintain their health. If this is placed on the American people then each memeber of government should have their health care the exact same for their families...they would see it different if it touched them.

  11. Lacey M

    Why do most of the candidates seem to believe that government should be removed from issues such as healthcare and fiscal issues however when it comes to social issues such as abortion, "Don't Ask Don't Tell", and gay marriage, they believe that government should be able to tell people what they can and cannot do?

  12. 7dwarfs

    If this represents the intellectual capacity, the brain trust of the right, the best they have, we're in real trouble.

    June 13, 2011 09:27 pm at 9:27 pm |
  13. gabe

    So Ron Paul believes that if you are not Christian, you have no rights under the current constitution.. Paul, quoting the 1st amendment, What a joke...
    " Congress shall write no law, which means Congress should never prohibit the expression of your Christian faith, in a public place."
    Last time I read the constitution, It had no reference to Christian Faith.

  14. Kent

    To help the housing market, would you be willing to give a tax break to investors by doing away with the passive activity loss limitations on real estate and let people take the entire loss in a tax year?

  15. kelly

    Would a "Fair Tax" help or hurt the US economy?

  16. Liberty Bear

    Can we please talk about higher prices and inflation?

  17. Imabeliever

    I can tell you from experience that abortion is dangerous to the health of the mother, more so than pregnancy, because it rips a developing life from the womb by artificial means, and there is always the danger of something going very wrong, as in my case and in many, many other post abortive women, plus you NEVER ever get over it emotionally. I don't care what the baby killers say.

  18. phineas j.

    it's one should have the right to tell anyone what they can and cannot do with thier body..and it's always ment telling women...funny....

  19. Ed

    Imabeliever... this is a country that protects it minorities from the oppression of the majority.

    June 13, 2011 09:28 pm at 9:28 pm |
  20. Ameena

    American Muslims completely support the government and ppl need to recognize that.

  21. Gregg Macdonald

    Are you willing to put the brakes on the automatic citizenship for those that illegally enter the country for the birth right citizenship for newborns

    June 13, 2011 09:29 pm at 9:29 pm |
  22. Anthony

    Ron Paul is the ONLY candidate (either Rep or Dem) that has ever served in the military, five years in the US Air Force.

  23. Andros

    If all Republicans and Democrats want less government then haw come the Patriot Act was extended and why is the government pushing towards a Police State "INE PAPIRE!" (SHOW PAPERS!) in German. Did not meant to Offend anyone just to overstate an oppressive regime.

  24. Liberty Bear

    What will each candidate do to keep gas and food prices from rising?

  25. zac

    These people have no clue what a regular americans go through..
    ..except Ron Paul.
