It wasn't great, but Rick Perry finally got off the mat and looked like he had a game plan in Tuesday night's raucous GOP presidential debate in Las Vegas.
But just as significant was the full-on assault that Mitt Romney took from Perry, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich on the universal health care plan he instituted in Massachusetts. Officials with the Obama administration used the Massachusetts plan as a model for the national version signed by the president last year, a bill whose repeal has been urged by all the candidates in this year's election cycle.
This article appears in Oct 13-19, 2011.