Horse Race
Still on as McCain beats Huck in South Carolina, Clinton tops Obama in Nevada. Roundup:
NYT.
LAS VEGAS – Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton won the Nevada caucuses on Saturday, capturing strong support from women voters and adding a fresh boost of momentum to her campaign as the Democratic presidential race heads to South Carolina, where she is engaged in a fierce battle with her rival, Senator Barack Obama.
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The New York senator had 51 percent of the vote to Mr. Obama’s 45 percent, with just over 90 percent of the state’s caucuses reporting. John Edwards, the former senator from North Carolina, faded to a distant third place with 4 percent of the vote.
“I guess this is how the West was won,” Mrs. Clinton told her supporters during a victory rally at the Planet Hollywood hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.
First-class groaner suggests a Hillary presidency would be more than just a policy nightmare.
Moderate Voice speculates on whether the primary is over. No, not yet. That would be Feb. 5, though maybe not even then.
Poligazette with some Obama Nevada spin and McCain immigration spin.
Stressing the point on the narrowness of the McCain win, via Ace.
Whatever, Tigerhawk likes the field.
Surber: S.C. winnows the field. Be sure not to miss his howler, “Crazy Aunt 2008,” compare and contrast with this other view re Bill.
Hill fans will want to check her inner Tracy at Amkerican Digest.
Malkin on the Huckster’s end.
Not so fast, says Riehlity-based Dan: On to Florida.
Meanwhile, Jeff G. at Protein Wisdom narrows his options.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:49 am Comments (2) on Sunday, January 20, 2008
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January 20th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
McCain vs. Bill… er, I mean Hillary.
Well my day just turned to crap.
January 20th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
I’m close to staking my reputation on McCain’s emergence as the clear GOP standard bearer, but by the looks of this morning’s Los Angeles Times’ analysis you’d think McCain was still a longshot:
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-gopassess20jan20,1,1701992.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage
Who, seriously, is going to challenge McCain for the Republican mantle (he’s hardly the underdog anymore)?
Perhaps Romney, if he can win some voters outside of his Mormon base. I don’t think Giuliani’s going to come out of Florida as the GOP’s white knight. His strategy of holding back from the early contests has dramatically relegated him to the sidelines. Thompson’s holding off on announcing his exit from the race, although it’s clear that his third place finish yesterday is about as high as he’s going to go. Sadly, Huckabee sullied himself in S.C., and I doubt he’ll recover (he hasn’t won since Iowa).