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Tea Party Debate: Mitt Romney Puts Rick Perry On Defensive

An unusually aggressive Mitt Romney takes the fight to the Texas governor in the CNN debate. Howard Kurtz on why he scored—and Michele Bachmann didn't.

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Michele Bachmann had a golden opportunity to swing away at Monday night's CNN debate—and she whiffed.

She took the very first question from Wolf Blitzer and defended the government's "promise" to provide Social Security—but made no mention of Rick Perry having slammed the popular program.

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