Live Debate Blogging #1

8:42 PM: It seems like a real disservice to have Kasich and Paul and probably Bush and Christie and Fiorina in this debate.

8:48 PM: Big headline tonight is that Facebook sent a truck around the country to collect videos?

8:53 PM: Under Christie, there will be no bomb hoaxes.

8:56 PM: People feel “left out and out of place in their own country.”

9:01 PM: Cell phones with ISIS flags on them.

9:02 PM: I’ve had a post I’ve been working on for a while about this. But it’s nuts that people are granting to ISIS that is a “caliphate.” It’s cedes a huge advantage to ISIS and grants something that extremely few Muslims do.

9:05 PM: Notable that none of the candidates are willing to say that Trump’s Muslim ban idea is wrong.

9:07 PM: So Cruz totally dodged the question. No one is willing to really disagree with Trump’s Muslim ban.

9:10 PM: For all the outrageousness of the claims of the other candidates, none seems as focused as Christie on trying to make sure everyone is absolutely as scared as possible.