Iowa Debate: Winners and Losers

By ALEXANDER BURNS | Rick Perry swatted both big government and big banks in his opening answer at Saturday night's debate, declaring that only an “outsider” can turn around the US economy. “I can, on a map, diagram the problem that we've got in

The former Utah governor is so far behind in the polls that he was not even invited to the Iowa debate. Getting kicked offstage is not a way to win a debate — or an election. If Gingrich clearly won, Huntsman clearly lost.

The former Massachusetts governor, who has been the leading Republican presidential candidate for much of the past year, entered the latest primary debate in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday night needing to knock Newt

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10 (Bloomberg) — Tonight's Republican debate in Iowa presents a field narrowed by the absence of Jon Huntsman and Herman Cain and focused by the ascendancy of Newt Gingrich, who is shouldering criticism for comments he made to Jewish media about