Jonathan Martin, Politico
After seven debates in which the Republicans mostly took shots at Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Democrats, the presidential hopefuls who gathered here Wednesday finally trained their fire on one another.
In place of the Hillary-bashing were a series of clashes over cultural issues: immigration, guns, God and gays.
It was the first of these that made for perhaps the most contentious exchange thus far between the closest thing the fluid GOP contest has to front-runners.
