Republican Presidential Debate: Live Coverage

I think she’s been fine. But the rest of the field has been sharper as a group. (And her first win was in the JV debate, which is like beating up on the Columbia Lions.) Perhaps also there’s the feeling in the room (and more to the point, among the media) that debates are Fiorina’s only real trick, and she doesn’t have the campaign apparatus to sustain any momentum she gets out of them.

Is this the first GOP debate that Fiorina hasn’t dominated?

By the way, those same demographic headwinds I just mentioned are a big part of the reason that few economists think Jeb Bush’s 4 percent growth pledge is realistic. Retiring boomers mean fewer workers, which will restrain economic growth.