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Just like the questions in Wednesday night's Republican debate, the post-show analysis started in the living rooms, dorm rooms and at least one basement TV studio of the people watching the fireworks on screen.

CNN asked YouTube questioners and I-Report contributors watching the debate at home what they thought. Who did the best? Results were mixed: several I-Reporters praised former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's one-liners, but Sen. John McCain, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney all scored points with the YouTube and I-Report groups.

Conner Tipping, an I-Report contributor and student at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, said he thought McCain's answers about illegal immigration and torture took "the moral high ground" in the debate, while Mark McSweeney of Henniker, New Hampshire, said he hadn't heard about Huckabee until the debate but thought he had "some great stuff." Read full article »

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