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Yet more appalling sights and sounds from last night's GOP debate. Video of all you need to know: the audience cheering loudly as Cain says the jobless have only themselves to blame; Romney and Perry going at it about who's tougher on brown-skinned "illegals"; Occupy Las Vegas protesters, thankfully, injecting the sole note of reality and telling it like it is.
