During our most sordid American midterm campaign, Congressman Jim Gibbons brought important attention to his bid for the governorship of Nevada by getting caught in some sleazy Vegas scene where he allegedly tried to drag a cocktail waitress back to his hotel room and then pretty much threatened to dump her corpse in the desert if she complained. Oh, Jim Gibbons, we have missed your stupid antics. Your nice wife Dawn Gibbons? Not so much. We hear she had divorce papers delivered to you Wednesday. MORE »

*WAR IS HELL:* The Clintons’ “March to the Sea” continues today as she burns all defeated culinary union employees in Vegas. [CNN]

* It seems weird, but presidential candidates are talking about race for some reason today. [NYT]
* Rudy Giuliani still thinks he’ll be president of Florida just because you can get today’s New York Port on Miami Beach. [Miami Herald]
* Will the world ever recover? The Los Angeles Times loses another editor. {Reuters]
* Well, at least John Edwards is very, very rich. [The Guardian]
* Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews seems to think these presidential candidates are funny. [Fishbowl DC]

While you people had a nice weekend, we went back to Nevada for Caucus Day. It was a very special time. We also “virtually” went to South Carolina, in our minds, to cover the GOP primary. Here’s what you missed: MORE »

While this Casino Caucus video can’t compete with Wonkette’s Cloverfield Coverage, it does provide actual verification of our hysterical claims: Nobody in Nevada even knows what Caucus means, let alone how to hold one. [Why Tuesday?]

OBAMA FINALLY GIVES UP (NEVADA): Barry Hussein did pretty well in Reno, which is a mostly black/Muslim area, but Hillary smashed his Hope down here in Las Vegas, despite the busboys’ union endorsement. Obama’s official statement is a dignified and hopeful message. Ha ha, just kidding: It just whines about all the hundreds of caucus irregularities. Also, Obama won more actual delegates, so he actually won after all! [Las Vegas Sun]

“Romney’s thrilled about his Magical Mormon victory in Nevada, where nobody but Romney (and Ron Paul!) bothered to campaign. It’s a very, very important victory, according to Romney. And CNN just cut off Hillary so we could hear Romney trot out another old story about his wife. But the best part of the Nevada GOP results is, obviously, Dr. Congressman Paul’s performance. He’s in second place, 200 votes ahead of McCain and three thousand votes ahead of Rudy Giuliani. Go Ron Paul! [Guardian]

At nine casinos in fabulous Las Vegas today, the Democrats held these weird “at large” caucuses for the Culinary Workers Union, which happened to endorse Obama. And then there was a court case — not-so-secretly encouraged by the Clinton campaign — to stop these casino caucus spectaculars, because that might help Barry Hussein Obama. Well, in the end Hillary won even with the union people having the right to vote or whatever. Here’s what it looked like. MORE »

THOSE ARE MIKE HUCKABEE’S LEGS! They look like unfried, defrosting unbreaded mozzarella sticks from the Old Country Buffet, Ukraine version. More ugly photos of major presidential candidates from Caucus/Primary Saturday after the jump, including bona fide evidence that Hillary Clinton is the dementor who let Bellatrix Lestrange out of Azkaban. MORE »

So, turns out you can take crappy videos with this crappy little PowerShot I carry around ….

Here’s an idea as innovative as the Nevada Caucus “First In The West” itself: Invite the press, lock them in a terrible underground ballroom in a casino somewhere, and make sure there’s no sort of Internet or wireless or anything. Hooray! Anyway, that’s where your editor has been, and here’s the chilling semi-live-blogged account of this weird, weird process. MORE »