While 22 million people may not have tuned into CNN for tonight's Democratic debate in Las Vegas like they had for the second Republican debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library last month, Twitter was just as lively without the circus that is the Republican presidential field (the Trump-led top-tier and the kiddie table undercard):

Most tweets, however, were considerably focused on former Virginia senator Jim Webb, who has hardly been seen on the campaign trail thus far:

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Most tweets from Republicans that were not targeted at Hillary Clinton over Benghazi were poking fun at Bernie Sanders, like these two from Fox News personalities:

A couple of Clinton jokes, of course:

Lots of complaints about the process:

But in the end, the best joke was a Biden joke -- per usual for social media:

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Watch highlights from the debate:

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