memeorandum: End the Superdelegates. End the Caucuses. For Democracy's Sake. (David Atkins/Washington Monthly)

1:10 AM ET, February 28, 2016

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Black Voters Boost Clinton in South Carolina

Discussion: Slate, Los Angeles Times, Fusion, Hot Air, Associated Press, ThinkProgressPage Array, The Atlantic, Politicus USA, Yahoo Politics, The Week, American Power, Washington Post, The American Mirror and Guardian

Nate Cohn / New York Times:

Hillary Clinton's Winning Numbers in South Carolina Suggest Sweep in South — After winning South Carolina's Democratic primary eight years ago, Senator Barack Obama declared that “after four great contests, we have the most votes, the most delegates, and have the broadest coalition for change.”

Discussion: Vox, Taylor Marsh, The Week and Vox Popoli

Matthew Yglesias / Vox:

South Carolina Democratic primary results 2016: An overwhelming win for Clinton — Hillary Clinton decisively won today's South Carolina Democratic primary, according to multiple sources, by what election projections are calling an “overwhelming” margin. Final results are not yet …

Discussion: Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, Washington Post, Yahoo Politics and The Week

Associated Press:

Clinton cruises to big win over Sanders in South Carolina — COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Hillary Clinton sailed to a commanding victory over Bernie Sanders in Saturday's South Carolina primary, drawing overwhelming support from the state's black Democrats and putting her in strong position …

Discussion: NBC News, The Gateway Pundit, New York Magazine and Hot Topics

Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Sanders on South Carolina results: ‘Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose’

Discussion: Yahoo Politics, Political Wire, ABC News and Washington Post

Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
With All Eyes On Trump, Clinton Is Winning The Democratic Nomination

Discussion: Infowars, Guardian, ABC News, Refinery29, Common Dreams, New Jersey News … and Raw Story

Nick Gass / Politico:
Clinton wallops Sanders in South Carolina

Discussion: Power Line and Washington Post

Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Hillary Clinton wins big in South Carolina, CNN projects

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New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Wins South Carolina Primary

Discussion: Mother Jones, Raw Story, Pitchfork, Towleroad, ThinkProgressPage Array, The Week, The Last Tradition, Common Dreams and Robert Reich

Hunter Walker / Yahoo Politics: How Hillary Clinton won the battle for the black vote in South Carolina

Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
Barack Obama's Heir

Discussion: New York Times and The Week

Natalie Andrews / Wall Street Journal:
South Carolina Democratic Primary — Latest Updates

Discussion: The Week

New York Times:

Inside the Republican Party's Desperate Mission to Stop Donald Trump — The scenario Karl Rove outlined was bleak. — Addressing a luncheon of Republican governors and donors in Washington on Feb. 19, he warned that Donald J. Trump's increasingly likely nomination would be catastrophic, dooming the party in November.

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

Inside the GOP Implosion and the War to Stop Trump — Here is a New York Times article you may have seen. It describes the GOP's panicked, hyperbolic and yet utterly ineffectual rush to stop the Donald Trump juggernaut. As I've said before, the GOP's Trump problem reminds of the regional and global powers efforts to destroy ISIS.

Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Will Conservatives Abandon Donald Trump in the General Election?

Discussion: New York Times, Balloon Juice, The Huffington Post, Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog and Hot Air

James Queally / Los Angeles Times:

Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupts in violence; three stabbed — A protester was stabbed at the site of a Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim on Saturday. — Three people were stabbed and several arrested when a Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupted in violence Saturday, police said.

Discussion: Mediaite, Associated Press, Boing Boing, Fusion, KTLA, SOOPERMEXICAN, SEC Primary, Independent Journal Review, Clayton Cramer and Booman Tribune

David Weigel / Washington Post:

Rubio's verbal assault on Trump continues, joined by seven-figure ad buys — OKLAHOMA CITY — It was the biggest crowd Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) had gotten in this state, perhaps a thousand voters filling the floor of a downtown event center to hear him. And for 10 minutes …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, National Review and The Last Tradition

Philip Rucker / Washington Post:

As Trump rolls into ‘Super Tuesday,’ Rubio hopes to hang on … KENNESAW, Ga. — In the sprint to Super Tuesday, Marco Rubio is scrambling to parlay his newfound aggression against Donald Trump into enough support at the polls not to be overwhelmed by the suffocating effects of the celebrity mogul's insurgent campaign.

Discussion: Princeton Election Consortium, Political Wire and Politico

Dan McLaughlin / RedState:
Marco Rubio Gives Democratic Strategists The Vapors

Discussion: JustOneMinute and MSNBC

New York Daily News:
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie endorses Donald Trump for president

Discussion: Joe.My.God., The Week, Mediaite and CNN

Patrick Brennan / Marco Rubio:

Here Are Marco's Tax Returns. Where Are Trump's? — The Rubio campaign released Marco and Jeanette Rubio's joint federal tax returns from 2010 to 2014. The Rubios' income has included earnings from employment with the U.S. Senate and Florida International University, Marco's legal work, Marco's books, and Jeanette's business.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Associated Press, CNN, Independent Journal Review and NPR

Brian Faler / Politico:
Rubio, Cruz release partial tax returns

Discussion: Political Wire, Washington Post, Red Alert Politics and Bloomberg Business

Sylvan Lane / The Hill:

Ex-CIA chief: Armed forces would have to disobey Trump — The former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency said Friday that if the military would have to disobey Donald Trump — if he followed through on certain campaign promises as president.

Discussion: Politico, Political Wire and Instapundit

William Kristol / Weekly Standard:

‘You Inspire Us All’ — 'You inspire us all. " With that fulsome greeting, Pat Robertson welcomed Donald Trump this week to the stage of Regent University. According to the school's catalogue, the university's name invokes the fact that “a regent is one who represents Christ, our Sovereign …

Kristen East / Politico:
Jan Brewer endorses Donald Trump

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, RedState and CNN

David Atkins / Washington Monthly:

End the Superdelegates. End the Caucuses. For Democracy's Sake. — One of the core principles of the Democratic Party is that it is supposed to be...well, democratic. Where the Republican Party is supposed to be the authoritarian defender of corporate and private power …

Discussion: Booman Tribune

Ian Hanchett / Breitbart:

Hillary: 'We Don't Need to America Great,' ‘Instead of Building Walls, We Need To Be Tearing Down Barriers’ — Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton argued, “we don't need to make America great. America has never stopped being great. ...