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Last night the Republican Presidential candidates debated in Florida on CNN, responding to questions submitted via YouTube. CBS had Jeff Greenfield file an assessment. He concluded that the "candidates' messages were aimed elsewhere." Bickering between Rudolph Giuliani and Mitt Romney was designed to score points with caucusgoers in Iowa; John McCain's stalwart opposition to the torture technique of waterboarding was addressed at independent voters in New Hampshire; Mike Huckabee's anti-income-tax platform was targeted at "all those conservatives yet to settle on a choice." The Giuliani-Romney feud focused on the treatment of immigrants without legal residency status, what NBC's David Gregory called "the core of the fight for the GOP nomination." ABC's John Berman (subscription required) called immigration an issue that is "making an already heated Republican primary nuclear…permeating the political ads." Amid an "air of meanness and nastiness," CBS' Bob Schieffer was impressed by Huckabee's Reaganesque ability "to hold himself above the battle--but yet he was able to stick it to his opponents when he really needed to."
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