We won't bother to get into the minutiae of last night's Bloomberg/Washington Post debate, other than to affirm the consensus that front-runner Mitt Romney did nothing to diminish his standings atop all the polls.
Earlier in the day Romney received a boost when New Jersey Governor Christ Christie endorsed him, and make a big spectacle of taking exception to the idea that Romney's universal health care plan in Massachusetts in any way resembled the health care reform plan that President Obama signed into law last year, calling that line of attack "intellectually dishonest."
This article appears in Oct 6-12, 2011.