manchester tonight. cnn political editor paul steinhauser is there and so is cnn s political reporter shannon travis. good to see both of you. you look very happy. i know you ve been working your butts off, but you look lively. paul, let s start with you. there is a debate tonight, another tomorrow. why are they so important? well, listen, don. we ve seen the whole cycle of debates, they ve been so outsized in importance like we ve never seen before. the debates make and break candidates t. they broke rick perry. they ve broken herman cain and some others. well, that could happen again tonight. the other thing, don, we haven t had a debate there have been 13, but we haven t had one in almost a month. it has been a while and a lot has change. we lost michelle balk p man. rick santorum used to be off to the side. now he ll be in the middle. mitt romney is used to the scrutiny. we ll see if santorum is used to it. one more thing, when i stand next to shannon travis i make him