It’s not unusual after presidential debate full of fireworks and mud slinging, but political pundits were a bit divided over who won the Republican faceoff last night although some said surging Mike Huckabee did one heckuva job. 
 
NBC News’ First Read argued the former Arkansas governor sounded presidential from the beginning and stepped up his game. 
 
“He had his share of one-liners — the best being the one about Jesus would never have run for higher office — but he seemed to balance the funny with more presidential rhetoric,” it said. 
 
The widely watched Des Moines Register political columnist David Yepsen said Huckabee, John McCain and Fred Thompson were the three winners last night while front runners Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani didn’t have such great a evening.
 
“The Romney-Giuliani tiff with each other over sanctuary cities at the beginning of the evening diminished them both because it didn’t look very presidential,” Yepsen wrote.
 
Political watchers at CNN, which hosted the debate, were more divided: Gloria Borger said there was no clear winner while Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons said McCain did the best. Republican conservative Bill Bennett argued Romney outperformed them all. 

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