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7:05 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: The Daily Dish, Ben Smith's Blogs, CNN, TalkLeft, Captain's Quarters, 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 Carpetbagger Report and The Seminal

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 …

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

Ari Melber / The Nation:
OBAMA WINS MOST NEVADA DELEGATES...

Discussion: MSNBC, TalkLeft and MyDD

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

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

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

Discussion: The Daily Dish

Bill Nichols / The Politico:
Clinton and Romney win Nevada

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

Marc Ambinder:
A Unique Clinton Memo

Discussion: Comments from Left Field

CNN:
Clinton, Romney projected winners in Nevada

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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: The State, TIME, TPM Election Central, The Corner, Hotline On Call, race42008.com, Riehl World View 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: 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: michellemalkin.com, Pajamas Media, Comments from Left Field, Hot Air and Macsmind

Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:

Fred gets wistful, hints at departure — Fred Thompson made it clear at a midday campaign stop that he won't continue in the race without a strong showing out of South Carolina tonight. — “We'll see how we have to do, we'll see what the results are,” Thompson said, when questioned …

Discussion: 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, protein wisdom, Political Radar, 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

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, Matthew Yglesias, MoJoBlog and MSNBC

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

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

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

Joseph J. Ellis / Los Angeles Times:

‘The better angels’ side with Obama — The candidate's appeal to a more unified electorate rings historically true. — Alively debate has developed in these pages and in the blogosphere about the viability of Barack Obama's politics of hope. Critics of Obama's promise to bring us together …

Discussion: TalkLeft, Washington Monthly, Tom Watson, Betsy's Page and Watching Those We Chose

Las vegas sun Blogs:

Obama wins second site on Strip—but Clinton carries it — Hillary Clinton has carried six of the nine at-large casino sites on the Strip, despite the influence of the Culinary Union. Clinton has carried at sites in the Flamingo, the Rio, Paris Las Vegas, New York New York, the Bellagio, and Wynn Las Vegas.

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Talking Points Memo and The RBC