Maybe the weirdest moment of the night was when Jon Huntsman told Rick Perry: “For Rick to say you can’t secure the border is pretty much a treasonous comment.” But that’s the thing. I don’t think snark is Tea Party. Neither is Kurt Cobain.

Santorum: “What what Gov. Perry has done is he provided in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, maybe that was an attempt to attract illegal — I mean Latino — voters.” Watch.

The quick rundown of the Romney/Perry set-to on Social Security.

Crowd goes hog wild as Perry doubles down on Bernanke Treason.

Relive the moment when Rick Santorum mixed up “illegal[s]” and “Latinos”. Watch it.

There was some disagreement among the staffers at TPM tonight about who did well and who didn’t in tonight’s debate. I thought it was another weak performance by Perry. Yes, he got off a number of lines that got applause from this crowd. But he mainly did it by doubling down on toxic lines of rhetoric like his suggestion that the Fed Chair might be guilty of treason. His attempts to walk back his earlier comments about Social Security struck me as confused and strained. (See the back and forth with Mitt on Social Security.) Read More

Benjy Sarlin explains how the ‘Israel Issue’ could cost Dems Anthony Weiner’s old seat today in New York’s 9th district.

Top Republicans claim that Obama is trying to cut the debt too much.

Did you miss the key moments in last night’s debate or want a quick refresher? Watch our compilation: The Debate in 100 Seconds.

It’s not quite Minority Report but the Santa Cruz PD has begun experimenting with complex algorithms to predict when and where crimes will occur and have police there ready to catch the bad guys. They call it “predictive policing.”