I completely disagree. I think he had a much better performance in this debate than the last one, despite having even less time. (breakdown from last time). His responses were much more effective and easier to grab good nuggets from. I’m actually really surprised he got booed. I think it was a combination of the way he slowed down his speaking plus probably a controlled (i.e. at least semi-stacked) crowd. I wouldn’t be surprised if after that Fox debate that got featured in Jon Stewart’s “where’s Ron Paul” piece, the networks all said “that ain’t happening again.”
If you recall, when he and Santorum-the-jingoist got into it the last time, when Santorum a voice in the audience can be clearly heard shouting back “because we’re over there!”. And there were plenty of cheers every time Paul made an anti-war comment. One might argue that the difference in location has something to do with it…but I doubt it. The more likely explanation is that audience entry is much more closely “monitored” shall we say.