November 28, 2007
Posted: 08:38 PM ET

(CNN) — From the first moments of the debate, the crowd at the Mahaffey Theater played a major role in setting the dynamic for the candidates.

Quick to applaud and to boo, the packed house had all eight GOP presidential hopefuls working to get their applause — and to avoid the jeers.

A testy back-and-forth between former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney over immigration early in the debate was punctuated by frequent applause and some jeers.

When moderator Anderson Cooper tried to move on to the next question and Giuliani jumped back to respond to Romney's remarks, members of the crowd booed. Giuliani quickly paused, and the next YouTube question was played.

– CNN's Josh Levs

Filed under: CNN/YouTube Debate


alex Souza, Pasadena, CA   November 29th, 2007 6:52 pm ET

Please re-name this section from the "Crowd gets into debate" to The "CNN/Clinton Plants get into the debate". CNN has now become CBS….

stone,lacrosse,va   November 28th, 2007 10:14 pm ET

it just seemed to me to be unfair debate cause mainly the only 2 who spoke was
Rudy Giuliani and mcCain
i would have liked to have heard more from the others and not just them

Anonymous   November 28th, 2007 10:02 pm ET

Hey Anderson - How about asking Ron Paul ANYTHING? They should have gone down the line and asked each candidate a question. UNFAIR and BIASED!

Gung Ho, Semper FI   November 28th, 2007 9:09 pm ET

The need to support the troops by stopping these witch hunts by the disgraceful former Marine Murtha and other.

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