Gop debate

• If the opening moments of Thursday night's CNN debate is any indication, bashing the mainstream news media over alleged biases is a surefire way to rouse the GOP faithful.
(YAHOO!)
• CHARLESTON, S.C. -- A reduced field of four candidates took to the stage in Charleston for the CNN Republican debate Thursday night, with Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich forced to respond to recent attacks on their respective records.
(New York Post)
• NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C.
(Philadelphia Daily News)
• CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Newt Gingrichs Republican rivals are not eager to criticize him on his marital woes. Gingrichs ex-wife says in an interview with ABC News that the former House speaker asked her for an open marriage.
(AZCentral.com)
• WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney perpetuated one unsubstantiated claim, about his record at Bain Capital, and more or less corrected himself on another, about President Barack Obama's health care law, in the latest Republican presidential debate.
(Washington Post)
• Santorum blasted frontrunner Mitt Romney for the healthcare plan that he signed into law in Massachusetts, and cast Newt Gingrich as unelectable because of his past support for requiring Americans to buy insurance.
(Chicago Tribune)
• In a saga worthy of a soap opera, the Republican presidential campaign was rocked Thursday by the departure of one candidate, an ex-wifes allegations against another and a recount that reversed the results of the Iowa caucuses.
(USA Today)