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The Debate Was No Good for Anyone

The pundits agree, and then split on blaming the inquisitors

By Jonas Oransky, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 17, 2008 1:12 PM CDT

(Newser) – The pundit class agrees for once: No one (at least in the Democratic Party) benefited from last night’s angry debate. But the left and the right disagree on who’s at fault:

The first half was “garbage time,” Jonathan Cohn writes in

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