For Sen. Barack Obama, last night's Democratic presidential debate at Howard University should have been his version of a fastball hitter getting a perfect pitch down the middle of the plate with the count set at three balls and no strikes.

Instead of swinging for the fences, Obama took one looking.

I wasn't in Washington, D.C. because I was hosting Paula Zahn's show on CNN, but all of the folks I've talked with said the room was hot, the audience was packed with some of the big ...

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