memeorandum: The end of Mike Huckabee (Michelle Malkin)

2:15 AM ET, January 20, 2008

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Ari Melber / The Nation:

OBAMA WINS MOST NEVADA DELEGATES... Barack Obama may have won the most delegates in Saturday's Nevada Caucus, even though Hillary Clinton bested his statewide turnout by about six points. — A source with knowledge of the Nevada Democratic Party's projections told The Nation that under …

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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:

Delegate Math: Who Won Nevada? — UPDATE, 8:15 p.m: Both the chairwoman of the Nevada Democratic Party and a senior adviser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign are insisting that the contention that Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) won more delegates in today's caucus is incorrect.

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New York Times:

Clinton Defeats Obama in Nevada Vote — 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 …

Discussion: The Politico, The Anonymous Liberal, The Trail, Las vegas sun Blogs, The Reaction, American Street, The Carpetbagger Report, The Seminal, Donklephant, skippy the bush kangaroo and Comments from Left Field

Marc Ambinder:

Obama Manager Accuses Clintons of Widespread Dirty Politics — David Plouffe, in a succinct statement appended to a released quotation from his boss, Barack Obama, said the Obama campaign was investigating more than 200 reporters of irregularities in Nevada.

Discussion: D-Day, Calitics, MyDD, The Agonist and The Jed Report

Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:

Leading Democrats To Bill Clinton: Pipe Down — Footing the Bill: Is the former president hurting his wife's campaign? — Prominent Democrats are upset with the aggressive role that Bill Clinton is playing in the 2008 campaign, a role they believe is inappropriate for a former president and the titular head of the Democratic Party.

Discussion: michellemalkin.com, Pam's House Blend, Spin Cycle and Don Surber

Ben Smith / The Politico:

Bill claims he witnessed voter suppression — Bill Clinton, speaking at a Vegas YMCA last night, made more charges against Obama and claimed to have, with Chelsea, personally witnessed voter suppression by the Culinary Workers: … (The transcript was provided by one source with a recording of the event, and confirmed by another.)

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John Dickerson / Slate:

A CLINTON WIN IN NEVADA ENDS ON AN UGLY NOTE. — Hillary Clinton has won the Nevada caucus, which means a few things about the Democratic race are now coming into focus. For example, mark on your calendar Jan. 25 for an outburst by Bill Clinton somewhere in South Carolina.

Discussion: TalkLeft, Hot Air, Political Machine, The Campaign Spot, Washington Post and Political Punch

Ben Smith / The Politico:

What happens in Vegas ... The Obama campaign has released a recording (mp3) it says came from a Nevadan's answering machine of an anonymous robocall that criticizes Obama for taking money from special interests while repeating, four times, his rarely used middle name: “Hussein.”

Discussion: Liberal Values, Brilliant at Breakfast, Matthew Yglesias, The Daily Dish and MoJoBlog

Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:

Obama Campaign: We Won Nevada Caucus — Based On Delegate Count — On a conference call with reporters just now, Obama top adviser David Plouffe made a surprising claim: He said Barack Obama actually won more federal nominating delegates out of the caucus, despite their six-point loss to Hillary.

Discussion: Associated Press, Slog, The Washington Note and Talking Points Memo

Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Potentially troubling news in Clinton's Nevada win

Discussion: The Daily Dish

Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
Hillary's OK Day — Hillary Clinton will gladly take her win today in Nevada.

Discussion: The Daily Dish

Mark Murray / MSNBC:
SOME CLARITY ON THOSE NV DELEGATES

Discussion: Open Left and 2008 Democratic …

Ben Smith / The Politico:
Nevada tussle signals rancor for Dems

Discussion: Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog

Marc Ambinder:
Obama Won More Delegates Than Clinton In Nevada?

Discussion: Balkinization, Christopher Hayes, toohotfortnr and QandO

CBS News:
Hillary Clinton Wins Nevada Dem Caucuses

Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Obama Trying To Play Bush To Hillary's Gore

Discussion: Taylor Marsh

CNN:

Fred Thompson stays in GOP presidential race — (CNN) — After a weak showing in the South Carolina primary, Fred Thompson gave a wistful speech to supporters, telling them “we'll always stand strong together." — Thompson had staked his campaign on a strong finish in the Republican primary here.

Discussion: Hot Air, Jonathan Martin's Blogs, Talking Points Memo, MSNBC, Political Radar, Donklephant and TPM Election Central

Redstate:

Not with a bang, but a whimper — So long, Fred; we hardly even knew ye. — Well, that's not entirely accurate — we knew you far better than we've known many a politician who's thrown his hat in the Presidential ring in years past (or even this year; see “Hunter, Duncan” or “Gravel, Mike” for examples).

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Power Line, the evangelical outpost and Ground Game

Associated Press:

McCain defeats Huckabee in S.C. — Economy, immigration top voters concerns in key GOP primary — Republican presidential hopeful Arizona Senator John McCain walks to his bus after meeting voters in South Carolina on Saturday. — McCain wins South Carolina

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CNN:
Hunter exits presidential race

Discussion: Wonkette and Stop The ACLU

CNN:
McCain looking to extend South Carolina poll hours

Discussion: The Politico, The BRAD BLOG, TIME: Swampland, Pam's House Blend, Hotline On Call, MyDD, The Corner, Hot Air, TPM Election Central, Brilliant at Breakfast, Riehl World View, race42008.com and Daily Dose

Thers / Firedoglake:
Thompson Out? Enjoy the SchadenFred

Discussion: The Corner, Whiskey Fire and National Review

Jennifer Parker / ABCNEWS:
McCain, Huckabee Battle for First in S.C. Primary

Discussion: The Swamp, Jonathan Martin's Blogs, Liberal Values and Outside The Beltway

Bill Nichols / The Politico:
McCain wins South Carolina

Discussion: New York Times

Michelle Malkin:

The end of Mike Huckabee — Liveblogging... He's taking the stage at his Columbia HQ. Huckabee says he just called McCain to congratulate him and thank him for a “civil,” “decent” campaign. — Huckabee slyly attacks Romney by praising himself and McCain for campaigning with “honor” instead of attacking someone else.

Discussion: Hot Air, Stop The ACLU, Riehl World View and Right Wing News

Mark Steyn / The Corner:

McMentum vs Huckmentum — Re Mark Levin et al's points below: — A McCain victory in SC has to be good news for Giuliani because the narrative becomes “Stop McCain!” and Rudy's best poised to do that - not just because his numbers in Florida haven't yet collapsed to the same undetectable levels …

Ross Douthat:
Rudy Is Toast — How's that for a bold prediction?

Discussion: Eunomia

Brian Eckhouse / Las vegas sun Blogs:

Culinary can't face the news — It looks like the Culinary Union's endorsement couldn't carry Barack Obama to victory in Nevada, who lost most of the at-large caucuses on the Strip to Hillary Clinton. — So it's no surprise that the Culinary Union apparently couldn't watch the results on today's caucuses on the news channels.

Discussion: Hotline On Call

Marc Ambinder:
A Unique Clinton Memo

Discussion: Comments from Left Field

The Corner:

This Race — The problem for the Republicans in this race is that none of them have received a majority of the vote. The winner gets about one-third of the vote, and is declared the big winner (usually said to have momentum, or what have you). Yes, he wins a plurality.

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