Hillary wins Nevada

An impressive victory, given that Nevada's powerful Culinary Workers' Union had endorsed Obama. Evidently the membership (heavily female and heavily Hispanic) had ideas of their own.

I confess to some disappointment that McCain has apparently won in South Carolina. I would far prefer to see the Republican party represented by Huckabee, a fundamentalist ignoramus who could never win the general election, than by McCain, a man of honor and gravitas who would be a much more formidable opponent. If the last few weeks are any guide, however, Democrats will have no need to undertake the disagreeable task of pelting McCain with mud and filth.

Republicans will do that.