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While it may feel like a lifetime, it has been all but about a month since the last time the four remaining (now that Buddy Roemer is running as an independent). Much has happened since then– Rick Santorum winning all three primary states on “mini-Tuesday,” shocking most with his win in Colorado; Newt Gingrich‘s almost complete disappearance from the scene, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul hanging about even.

The debate, hosted in Mesa, Arizona, where there will be a primary next week (on Super Tuesday), is sponsored by CNN and will be moderated by John King. The news cycle it is arriving to is replete with social issues, and Santorum in particular is expected to have to explain some of the comments he made regarding Christianity that have recently surfaced.

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