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7:20 PM ET, January 19, 2008

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Hillary Clinton Wins Nevada Dem Caucuses — CBS News Projects That Hillary Clinton And Mitt Romney Will Win The Nevada Caucuses — (CBS/AP) CBS News estimates that Sen. Hillary Clinton will win the Nevada Democratic caucuses. — CBS News also estimates that former Massachusetts …

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs, CNN, The Daily Dish, Captain's Quarters, TalkLeft, Hot Air, Salon, Marc Ambinder, The Gun Toting Liberal™, The Democratic Daily, Donklephant, Pollster.com, Associated Press, The Heretik, TPM Election Central, Crooks and Liars and Gateway Pundit

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 Seminal, Comments from Left Field and The Carpetbagger Report

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 …

Discussion: MSNBC, TalkLeft and MyDD

Associated Press:

Women key for Clinton in Nevada — Whites and women helped Hillary Rodham Clinton to victory while blacks overwhelmingly backed Barack Obama in Nevada's Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday, a survey found. In the state's Republican caucuses, one in four participants were Mormons …

Discussion: DownWithTyranny!, Transterrestrial Musings, THE LIBERAL JOURNAL, HorsesAss.Org and Taegan Goddard's …

Hillary Clinton / CNN:

Potentially troubling news in Clinton's Nevada win — WASHINGTON (CNN) — African Americans overwhelmingly voted for Barack Obama in the Nevada caucuses, just as they did in the Michigan Democratic primary last week — a trend that could hurt Hillary Clinton in next Saturday's South Carolina primary …

Discussion: The Daily Dish

Marc Ambinder:

Election Wire.... CLINTON WINS NV.... Romney Wins, Too — 78% reporting: HRC: 51%, Obama: 45%, Edwards: 4% — ** Campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle tells us: “This was a great win. There is a lot of work left to do. We're looking forward to working for every vote in the coming primaries and caucuses.”

Discussion: MyDD

You Decide 08!:
MITT ROMNEY WINS NEVADA GOP CAUCUSES, SCORING BACK-TO-BACK VICTORIES

Discussion: The Newshoggers, Gateway Pundit, DownWithTyranny! and Tammy Bruce

Bill Nichols / The Politico:
Clinton and Romney win Nevada

Discussion: The Swamp, Watching Those We Chose, Stumper and The Carpetbagger Report

Jacqueline Klingebiel / Political Radar: Romney's Roll of Thunder

CNN:
South Carolina up for grabs

Discussion: protein wisdom, The Moderate Voice, New York Times, You Decide 08!, Open Left, Middle Earth Journal, Firedoglake, BitsBlog, PoliBlog (TM), QandO and Gristmill

Washington Post:
When Attacked, Obama's Now Hitting Back

Discussion: The Hill, the talking dog, Stumper, Liberal Values and New York Times

CNN:

McCain looking to extend South Carolina poll hours — CONWAY, South Carolina (CNN) - A top backer for John McCain's presidential bid tells CNN the Arizona senator's campaign is seeking a court order to extend voting in Horry County by one hour, after learning voting machines in this eastern part …

Discussion: TIME, The Corner, TPM Election Central, Hotline On Call, Riehl World View, race42008.com and Daily Dose

Foon Rhee / Boston Globe:

Thompson plans to go on to Florida — COLUMBIA, S.C. — Fred Thompson, trailing Mike Huckabee and John McCain in the polls, may continue his presidential bid even if he finishes third in today's South Carolina primary, his campaign said. — Thompson had talked of South Carolina as his last stand.

Discussion: The State, Hot Air, Transterrestrial Musings, Wake up America, About.com US Conservative … and New York Times

Zogby:

Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Polls: - Dead Heat for GOP in South Carolina! - Clinton Holds Lead in Nevada — • Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Polls: — Dead Heat for GOP in South Carolina! — Clinton Holds Lead in Nevada... [ read on ] (1/19/08) — Zogby News Releases — Zogby News RSS Feed

Discussion: Pajamas Media, Comments from Left Field, Hot Air and Macsmind

Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Fred gets wistful, hints at departure

Discussion: Stumper and Sister Toldjah

CNN:
Low turnout reported in South Carolina

Discussion: ABCNEWS, Associated Press, BitsBlog and PoliGazette

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.)

Discussion: TPM Election Central, Political Radar, protein wisdom, Rolling Stone, Taylor Marsh, The RBC, Donklephant, PoliGazette, Sister Toldjah, QandO, Cliff Schecter, Spin Cycle and Comments from Left Field

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Blue On Blue, No Heartache For GOP

Discussion: Taylor Marsh

Marc Ambinder:
A Unique Clinton Memo

Discussion: Comments from Left Field

John Gideon / The BRAD BLOG:

E-Voting Train Wreck 2008: The Horry County, SC Disaster — ES&S iVotronic Touch-Screens Fail In 100% of the County's Precincts, Voters Reportedly Being Turned Away Without Being Able to Cast a Vote — Virus-Vulnerable Voting Machines Had Been Sent Home with Pollworkers on ‘Sleepovers’ Prior to Today's Republican Primary...

Discussion: TIME: Swampland and Brilliant at Breakfast

CNN:
South Carolina primary plagued by bad voting machines, snow

Discussion: The Corner, Pandagon, Pam's House Blend and The Amboy Times

The State:
Voting machine issues dog Horry County

Discussion: TownHall Blog and michellemalkin.com

Chicago Sun Times:

Sun-Times Exclusive: Obama surfaces in Rekzo's federal corruption case — Source confirmed Obama is the unnamed “political candidate” referred to in document which outlines case against Rezko — For the first time, Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama has surfaced in the federal corrupton case …

Discussion: TalkLeft, TIME, MSNBC, Suburban Guerrilla and The Page

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: The Daily Dish, Brilliant at Breakfast, Matthew Yglesias, MoJoBlog and MSNBC

The Campaign Spot:

A Jarring Statistic in Romney's Nevada Victory — I don't think the Mormon card is a legitimate card to play against Mitt Romney. Love him or hate him, there are plenty of reasons to vote for or against the man besides his religion. — But if the entrance polls are accurate …

Discussion: Commentary, MSNBC and Eunomia

Haaretz:

Canada takes close allies U.S., Israel off torture watchlist — Canada's foreign ministry, responding to pressure from close allies, said on Saturday it would remove the United States and Israel from a watch list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured.

Discussion: The Newshoggers, Wake up America, At-Largely and The Moderate Voice

Jill Miller Zimon / The Moderate Voice:
Update: Canada removes U.S., Israel from potential torturer/abuser list

Discussion: New York Times

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