[TomGuy]

I gotta give Santorum credit. He was the only one I saw who really went after nein-nein-nein.

When Santorum asked the audience to react to those two questions about 999, and got dead silence, that was devastating to 999.

SANTORUM: Well, I already put forward a plan.

You know, Mitt, I don’t want to go to a trade war, I want to beat China. I want to go to war with China and make America the most attractive place in the world to do business. And we need to do that with the agenda that I outlined, which, unlike Herman’s plan, which could not pass, because no — how many people here are for a sales tax in New Hampshire? Raise your hand.

There you go, Herman. That’s how many votes you’ll get in New Hampshire.

We’re not going to give the federal government, Nancy Pelosi, a new pipeline, a 9 percent sales tax for consumers to get hammered by the federal government.

How many people believe that we’ll keep the income tax at 9 percent? Anybody?

There. That’s why people won’t trust giving people –

[mojitojoe]

When Santorum did that, I cringed. It was a brilliant move and I think it harmed Cain... a LOT!! When it happened I found myself hoping not many people were watching the debate. I almost didn’t watch it because it was Bloomberg and those messages at the bottom promoting Hussein were annoying me to the point of wanting to smash the tv but I stuck it out.

[Huck]

I loved that part. I said before the debate I would credit whoever went after 9-9-9 hard, and that was Santorum. Bachmann's comments on 9-9-9 were ditzy and ineffective, but Santorum really threw punches. He had derision in his voice. I thought it was just exactly what I was looking for.

He's the only one I heard give a full-throated attack on it. So I give him credit for it. As a still undecided voter, stuff like that makes a difference.

[Brookhaven]

How many people believe that we’ll keep the income tax at 9 percent? Anybody?

I thought Cain missed a huge opportunity with that one. He should have come back with "How many people love the current tax system? Anybody?" Then "How many people worry about getting audited by the IRS and having their life destroyed? Lots of people."

The fact that people are still wary about Cain's plan doesn't mean the like the current system.

[chilepup]

LOL. No, it wasn’t devastating. The lst poll out of Nh had Cain in second. The way Santorum couched the question was why he got the answer he got from the crowd....when Cain said it was based on a false premise, he blasted Santorum out of the water. The irony, nobody on here understands the 9-9-9 plan. Cain didn’t do badly last night, and he didn’t lost a lot of supporters. These Perry people who try to tell you that forget that Cain has around a 30 positive intensity score...his supporters aren’t going anywhere.