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• IOWAN-STYLE GAY MARRIAGE COMES TO VERMONT: Activist legislators have introduced mandatory gay marriage in the seat of our democracy, the tiny rural New England state of Vermont. With heterosexual marriage officially Under Peril, we will leave it to Vermont’s judges to enforce the will of the people. [AP]

So he’s still winning the popular vote and the “normal” delegates and maybe the Hope Monsters of Space vote? But he has not won things! Hillary Clinton is the great winner of maybe one or two races!

Your associate editor checked Drudge Report at 6:53 ET, BEFORE 7:00 WHEN POLLS CLOSED, and he had already called Vermont for Barack. Even the teevee doesn’t do that! But now that it’s 7:00, and MSNBC has tallied zero votes, so it is completely acceptable to call it for Barack. Oh and John McCain won Vermont too. [Drudge Report]

*Vermont held its primary today, apparently.

In four lucky states today, voters got to stand in line and have their cars towed while they exercised their inalienable right to vote for hilariously named candidates like “Manlove.” Stay with us tonight as we cover the race from scrappy Rhode Island to tender Vermont to “high in the middle” Ohio to that other state, the one that used to be Mexico. One lucky Wonkette editor will provide on-the-ground coverage of the endangered Texas Primacaucus and then liveblog drunkenly from a downtown Austin bar. Your other editors will be at home, cooking meth and chortling at Chris Matthews. Stock up on guns and liquor, and we’ll see you tonight! [Washington Post]

Every four years, Americans who happen to be primary voters in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont all meet up at the polling place to take dumb pictures with their iPhones. And then they hum “The Star Spangled Banner” or “Up Against The Wall You Redneck Mother” or Neil Young’s “Ohio” as they send the pix to Wonkette. Please stop being unpatriotic and please start sending us your Stupid Tuesday Polling Pix right now! (Use the “email” feature of your phone, by “emailing” photos to tips@wonkette.com.)

So it turns out Hillary Clinton is running that ad in Vermont because people will be voting in some sort of “primary” there soon, except it’s on the same day as Ohio and Texas so nobody cares. Similarly, Rhode Island will also be voting on March 4. It turns out that Rhode Islanders, in spite of their legendary venality, corruption, and love for coffee milk, are still allowed to vote in presidential primaries. [AP/AP]

Hillary is finally starting to act like the humans and is competing in more than two states. This ad, for example, is running in the French Canadian province of Vermont. Big mistake — how can she possibly win over the state’s 90% black population?

• Polling shows an increase in support for President Bush, as well as a sharp divide in public opinion over setting a deadline for Iraq withdrawal. [WP]

• Bush condemns the media’s disclosure of the Administration’s secret bank-records surveillance program, calling it “disgraceful.” [WP; NYT]
• A deeply divided Supreme Court strikes down Vermont’s restrictions on campaign contributions and campaign spending by candidates. [NYT; LAT; WP]
• Condoleezza Rice defends Afghan President Hamid Karzai, denying reports that his foreign and Afghan support is eroding. [WP]
• Rush Limbaugh is detained for over three hours at a Florida airport, after being found in possession of a bottle of Viagra without a prescription. [AP]

* Reliable Source: Bush twins and Henry Hager ran “incognito” in a Richmond marathon on Saturday. . . Jack Kemp, Terry McAuliffe, and Wesley Clark show up at GQ book party. [WP]
* Inside the Beltway: Jack Abramoff’s attorney says his client will get out of jail earlier than expected. . . Rep. Tom DeLay just one month ago: “The reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. I’m still very much alive.”. . . Actor Seth Green: “The Democratic Party just sits and waits… The Republicans are just more focused and organized.” [WT]
* Inside Politics: Sen. Barack Obama has “rock-star-like appearance” in Vermont. . . MoveOn.org ads that link Republican lawmakers to energy and oil interests are banned by two NBC stations. . . Rep. Cynthia McKinney acknowledges misuse of funds to pay for airfare for Isaac Hayes. [WT]

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