UPDATE: Cable news network numbers are in: The debate was seen by 11.4 million on Fox News, 9.8 million on CNN and 4.9 million on MSNBC. That’s a total of 26.1 million viewers on the major cable news nets alone. That puts last night’s debate even more clearly on track to easily beat the Romney-Obama debate four years ago (which delivered 21.1 million viewers among the cable news nets)