Republican Undercard Debate: Live Coverage

Bobby Jindal says he wants everyone to pay some taxes. Most of the other candidates would shift the tax code in the other direction. They would cut taxes for poorer Americans, increasing the number of people who pay no federal income tax. (Incidentally, those are the “47 percent” that Mitt Romney railed against four years ago.)

It’s that time in the JV debate when we get bored and look up who has the most search traffic on Google. So far it’s Bobby Jindal!

I think it’s Jindal, who is the one who probably feels like he needs to gain traction with the establishment in order to have a path. (And it’s not likely to happen.) Santorum can still hold out hope of catching on in Iowa, Christie is clearly going to find some traction after tonight, and Huckabee isn’t going anywhere before Iowa.