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Did you understand the debate? Neither did we. When viewers’ eyes started to glaze over as the candidates invoked the Dodd-Frank and Simpson-Bowles financial reform measures, they seemed less like skilled orators and more like folks sitting in a cubicle crunching numbers at our local IRS office, as Slate‘s political reporter saw it.