The debates are doing what they should be doing; revealing that the only candidates of any depth are Romney, Gingrich and Paul.  And that Romney is most likely the only electable candidate.  Also, if Obama's #s are "inching up," it's a stretch to attribute that to the GOP debates.  It's more likely the result of a slowly improving economy.

Yanks don't like to switch horses. The last two who got booted were bush sr. and carter - two with serious failings against opponents with incredible campaigning ability and the press on their side.

It takes a push and a pull to unseat a pres, and the repubs don't have the pull - or the push. Obama can say, "I got osama bin laden. I unseated a dictator at a cost of a billion, making france and england do the heavy lifting. Chimpy and company spent a trillion doing the same thing. Who's your daddy?" And even though it was chimpy who set the "out" date in iraq, thanks to the metrosexual child molesters at fox doctoring the facts in a failed attempt to create a narrative about obama being a cut-and-run guy, the public credits obama with it - and will continue to do so (hide and watch).

The press is not going to be nice to whatever ass-clown prevails from amongst the ass-clowns attempting. Everyone likes Mitt - EVERYONE, - depending on which mitt we are talking about. He's a different guy from day to day. Cain is imploding, Perry already has. The repubs have nothing, and will set out the next four years molesting young boys, in keeping with their hobby.