'Over the Top': Mike Huckabee Campaign Gets Dramatic!

Susan Eisenhower, Ike's Granddaughter Endorses Barack

NEWSWEEK reports:

Susan Eisenhower is more than just another disappointed Republican. She is also Ike's granddaughter and a dedicated member of the party who has urged her fellow Republicans in the past to stick with the GOP. But now Eisenhower, who runs an international consulting firm, is endorsing Barack Obama. She has no plans to officially leave the Republican Party. But in Eisenhower's view, Obama is the only candidate who can build a national consensus on the issues most important to her—energy, global warming, an aging population and America's standing in the world.

Considered Friends? Enmity Against Mitt Romney

The NY Times reports that other Republican candidates for the presidency don't like Mitt very much. For example,

“Never get into a wrestling match with a pig,” Senator John McCain said in New Hampshire this month after reporters asked him about Mr. Romney. “You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.”

But Mitt (Willard Milton Romney, in fact) says "you know, I consider these guys my friends."

Fred Thompson Drops Out of the Race for the Presidency of the United States

Former Sen. Fred Thompson on Tuesday ended his run for the presidency, coming off the heels of a disappointing third-place finish in South Carolina's GOP primary and heading into the showdown state of Florida next week.

"Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for president of the United States," Thompson said in a statement.

"I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people."

Mike Huckabee's Concession Speech in Columbia, South Carolina

John McCain Takes South Carolina: The First in the South Primary

A close race between John McCain and Mike Huckabee, with McCain taking the low country and Huckabee taking the upstate...During his speech tonight, McCain asked, "What's 8 years between friends?"

South Carolina Republican Primary Results Illustrated

Nevada Election Results Illustrated

South Carolina Republican Primary Results with 65% Reporting

John McCain 98,585 34.0%
Mike Huckabee 84,576 29.1%
Fred D. Thompson 45,269 15.6%
Mitt Romney 44,422 15.3%
Ron Paul 10,409 3.6%
Rudolph W. Giuliani 6,213 2.1%
Duncan Hunter 663 0.2%
Tom Tancredo 60 0.0%
Others 117 0.0%
65% reporting | Updated 9:02 PM ET NY Times

South Carolina Republican Primary Results with 43% Reporting

McCain 33%
Huckabee 30%
Thompson 16%
Romney 15%
Paul 4%
Giuliani 2%


43% reporting

South Carolina Republican Primary Results with 32% Reporting

McCain 35%
Huckabee 29%
Thompson 15%
Romney 15%
Paul 4%
Giuliani 2%

32% reporting

South Carolina Republican Primary Results at 8 pm EST

McCain 35%
Huckabee 28%
Romney 16%
Thompson 13%
Paul 4%
Guiliani 3%

South Carolina Republican Primary Results with 1% Reporting

McCain 38%
Huckabee 23%
Romney 19%
Thompson 12%
Giuliani 5%
Paul 4 %

1% reporting

Nevada Election Results

ELECTION RESULTS
Nevada
Democrats Votes
Clinton 5,173
Obama 4,604
Edwards 384
88% reporting

Republicans Votes
Romney 17,749
Paul 4,382
McCain 4,348
78% reporting
Democratic results reflect county delegates won by the candidates.

My goodness! Look how few people actually vote! Actually, I heard that in Nevada the Democratic Party results are not really votes, but number of electorates awarded???

South Carolina: A Key Republican Primary

The Voice of America is among the world’s most trusted sources of news and information.

Republican leaders in South Carolina say Saturday's vote is a key step in the process to select the party's presidential candidate for the November elections. Since former President Ronald Reagan won the South Carolina primary on his way to victory in the 1980 general election, no Republican candidate has captured the White House without winning the state's primary.

Recent opinion polls show the top two candidates are Senator John McCain and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. Both held numerous campaign events across the state ahead of the vote.

Michigan Primary as of 9:15 P.M. Tuesday

With 13% of precincts reporting:

Rudy Giuliani 3%
Fred Thompson 4%
Ron Paul 6%
Mike Huckabee 17%
John McCain 31%
Mitt Romney 37% (NBC News is projecting as winner of Michigan primary)

Quote from THE EVANGELICAL CRACK-UP

Today the president’s support among evangelicals, still among his most loyal constituents, has crumbled. Once close to 90 percent, the president’s approval rating among white evangelicals has fallen to a recent low below 45 percent, according to polls by the Pew Research Center. White evangelicals under 30 — the future of the church — were once Bush’s biggest fans; now they are less supportive than their elders. And the dissatisfaction extends beyond Bush. For the first time in many years, white evangelical identification with the Republican Party has dipped below 50 percent, with the sharpest falloff again among the young, according to John C. Green, a senior fellow at Pew and an expert on religion and politics.

David Kirkpatrick