Last night the Republican candidates who are respectively 44, 49, 54, and 56 points below the current

GOP frontrunner met in Miami to debate for some reason. The guy who's 49 points behind the front runner had the most

brilliant performance in that he gave the most thought-provoking and

exciting answers. He had the highest highs, maybe he had the lowest lows too.

The guy who was only 44 points behind the front runner,

I think, had the best performance overall.

He answered in a way that was impressive,

yet still entirely mainstream and nothing that anyone said

will in any way affect the polls or change the race at all.

I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael N the show. The big story that we'll get to in a little bit happens to be

that personal story that I talked about yesterday. Mayflower cigars. I'm not saying

that yesterday was the greatest day of my life. It wasn't.

Might have been top five. It was almost certainly top ten. It the... I had very high

expectations for this cigar company that I'd been plotting out for about 15 years now and

you all the customers who bought all those cigars totally blew my expectations and the expectations of the

cigar industry completely out of the water. So I know some of you were trying to get some now and are having trouble.

We'll get to that in just a moment. First though, we turn our attention to the GOP debate that I think very few people would have watched to begin with because these things haven't seemed to be all that consequential. Even if you like the candidates,

even if you're endorsing one of the candidates in the race

who shows up to the debates, they haven't really moved the needle.

And this debate was even worse in some ways because the debate was hosted by NBC News, which is a liberal outlet.

Do you think, okay, why am I? It's inconsequential and it's being hosted by a

liberal network okay why the debate started out fairly strong the vague

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