The place to be for an insider's look at the GOP presidential debate Monday night was the Media Filing Center & Spin Zone at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

More than 500 reporters, photographers, TV crewmen -- all registered media -- set up shop on the second floor of the Marshall Student Center in the USF ballroom. Caffeine-starved, deadline-minded reporters from all over the country -- all over the globe, in fact -- crowded in together, popping open soda cans, working their stories.