memeorandum: Women, Latinos Propel Clinton To First Place (Washington Post)

8:05 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 …

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.

Discussion: MSNBC, Las vegas sun Blogs, The Reaction, The Gun Toting Liberal™, TalkLeft, Captain's Quarters, Crooks and Liars, The Democratic Daily 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, The Jed Report, Hot Air and The Politico

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: Pam's House Blend, The Moderate Voice, Don Surber, Spin Cycle, The RBC and DownWithTyranny!

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 …

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John Dickerson / Slate:
A CLINTON WIN IN NEVADA ENDS ON AN UGLY NOTE.

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

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Washington Post:
Women, Latinos Propel Clinton To First Place

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

Discussion: The Politico, Comments from Left Field and The Daily Dish

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

Discussion: Balkinization, Christopher Hayes, toohotfortnr and QandO

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.

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

Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:

The Party of ... McCain? — For weeks, we've marveled at the GOP field's stubborn refusal to winnow itself. With John McCain's victory tonight, we've finally achieved that belated winnowing. In one quick burst, McCain has effectively knocked Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson …

Discussion: The Corner and Taylor Marsh

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

Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:
Breaking News: A Ron Paul surge in Nevada

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Thers / Firedoglake:
Thompson Out? Enjoy the SchadenFred

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The Corner: Exit Polls — Rich: By my back-of-the-envelope calculations …

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

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

Mike Tackett / The Swamp:
South Carolina GOP race tight as a tick

Discussion: New York Times, Brilliant at Breakfast and Stumper

Bill Nichols / The Politico:
McCain wins South Carolina

Discussion: CNN, New York Times and The Reaction

CNN:
McCain looking to extend South Carolina poll hours

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Mark Murray / MSNBC:

SOME CLARITY ON THOSE NV DELEGATES — From NBC's Mark Murray — After the Obama campaign pointed out it had won more pledged delegates than Clinton did — which the AP and NBC News later backed up — the Nevada Democratic Party issued this statement: “Just like in Iowa what was awarded today were delegates to the County Convention.

Discussion: Open Left and 2008 Democratic …

Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Campaign: We Won Nevada Caucus — Based On Delegate Count

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

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

Discussion: The Daily Dish

Ross Douthat:

Rudy Is Toast — How's that for a bold prediction? Seriously, I think Mark Steyn had it exactly wrong this afternoon, when he wrote: … If Romney hadn't won Michigan, I could almost imagine something like this happening. (Indeed, I did imagine it, back when it looked like Romney might flame out early.)

Discussion: PrestoPundit and Eunomia

Mark Steyn / The Corner: McMentum vs Huckmentum

CNN:

Hunter exits presidential race — NEW YORK (CNN) — Rep. Duncan Hunter has abandoned his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, the California congressman said in a statement released Saturday evening. — “Today we end this campaign,” said Hunter, according to an advance copy …

Discussion: Wonkette and Stop The ACLU

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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Times of London:

FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft — The FBI has been accused of covering up a file detailing government dealings with a network stealing nuclear secrets — THE FBI has been accused of covering up a key case file detailing evidence against corrupt government officials …

Discussion: The BRAD BLOG, At-Largely and Boing Boing

Jeff G. / protein wisdom:

allow me to interject — I will not, will not, vote for John McCain. — I will not, will not, vote for Mike Huckabee. — I will not, will not, vote for Ron Paul — unless he runs for Fuhrer. In which case, he's got my full support. — I might hold my nose and vote for Mitt Romney …

Discussion: Gateway Pundit, Power Line and Redstate