The Republican debate on FNC last night was the highest rated debate so far this election cycle. The debate scored 3.14 million total viewers. That beats the nine other presidential debates.

The debate ran until 10:39pmET, after which Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes took over in the spin room, with an assist from 'campaign' Carl Cameron and his Carl Cam, which was edited together for a piece that aired on the Big Story today.

>More, from an emailer: "Debate blows out CNN's Bill Clinton appearance on King which averaged just 1.4 million viewers."