Republican Presidential Debate: Live Coverage

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Andrew, your point on Carly Fiorina’s “crony capitalism” message is right on. Her message is an interesting mix of populism — “big government favors the big and powerful and crushes the small and powerless” — and using “socialism” in a way the dictionary doesn’t seem to support. (Merriam-Webster says socialism is: “a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies”), which is different from industry consolidation. So how much do voters care about how these types of terminology are used, or how consistent Fiorina’s and other candidates’ messages are?

Another World Series update! Mets scored a run in the top of the fourth to take a 1-0 lead and then escaped a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the frame. Still 1-0 as we go into the fifth.