ANDRIA HALL, CNN ANCHOR: CNN's Bill Delaney also covered that debate last night in New Hampshire and he's been collecting reactions to it. And he joins us now from Durham -- Bill.</s>BILL DELANEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Andria, in the wake of last night's debate, what will be coming up in the next few days, a closely packed series of Republican debates. The New Hampshire newspaper "The Union Leader" may have summed up pretty well the tone of last night. "GOP hopefuls trade jabs," it says. There were no knockout punches last night. There was some sharp punching. George W. Bush -- Texas Governor George W. Bush, as Candy Crowley just pointed out, did stick his neck out a bit with that "no new taxes" pledge, the sort of thing that got his father, President Bush, in so much trouble a few years ago. There was considerable sparring between McCain and Bush. As Candy pointed out, McCain hitting Bush for his big tax cut proposal -- McCain says that's too reliant on surpluses -- and Bush hitting McCain on what's suddenly become kind of a vulnerable issue for him: campaign finance reform. That's been at the heart of McCain's program Now, because of that allegation that he may have worked with the Federal Communications Commission to push a decision for a major contributor, suddenly that is a problem for McCain. Take a look here, if you will, again, "The Union Leader," the editorial -- the lead editorial in this conservative newspaper: "Senator McCain is both phony and proud." Now, that's not the sort of thing McCain wants to be out and about when people open their newspapers this morning in New Hampshire. It could hurt him with the critical voting block for him up here: independents. There's another debate of the Republicans tonight in South Carolina. There'll be another one Monday in Michigan. But at the moment, the status quo seems to continue. There were no knockout punches last night. If the status quo continues, that's good news for George W. Bush. Bill Delaney, CNN, reporting live from Durham, New Hampshire.
Election 2000: No Knockout Punches in GOP's Durham, New Hampshire Debate