John Solomon: The Washington Times is an “extraordinary news brand.”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI), and 18 Democratic committee members, call for the attorney general to name a special prosecutor in the CIA torture tapes case.
NRO’s Jim Geraghty posts what are supposed to be the first exit polls out of Michigan. Romney 35%, McCain 29%, Huck 15%, Paul 10%, Giuliani 4%.
We’ve independently heard the same numbers; but we were not able to confirm them.
(ed.note: Actually, when Eric Kleefeld told me about these numbers about an hour ago he at first accidentally transposed the numbers and had McCain up over Mitt, which was heartbreaking. But he quickly corrected his error.)
At a certain point, you start to wonder whether Rudy should be allowed in any more Republican debates.
Rudy goes on the air in Florida with Spanish language ad exploiting 9/11.
According to Olbermann, the Nevada state Supreme Court just ruled in favor of NBC excluding Kucinich.
According to the Fox exit polls, in the Democratic primary tonight, Clinton took 25% of the African-American vote and “uncommitted” is getting 69% of the African-American vote. Now remember, Hillary is only major candidate on the ballot. The others, and even Hillary to a degree, boycotted the primary because Michigan got crosswise with the national Democratic party over the date of their primary. Rep. Conyers (D) is an Obama supporter and he pushed for the state’s African-American community to vote “uncommitted.” There’s too much screwy about the Democratic primary in Michigan tonight to draw too much from this; but it is suggestive.
I think the big question of the night is whether Rudy tops the 5% threshold. So far, clocking in at a healthy 4%.
Late Update: 8:42 PM … At the moment we’re back in a close race between Rudy and “uncommitted”. At the moment it’s Rudy at 3% and Unc at 2%.
Later Update: 8:44 PM … Unc has pulled ahead of Rudy by about 50 votes. Both at 3% with 2% reporting.
A little heads-up on primary watching tonight. Noted GOP barker Hugh Hewitt is a completely maniacal Mittophile — and I mean, not kidding around Mittophile, but the genuine Pravda-like adoration and devotion to the Mitt cult. So if the Mittmentum holds up tonight and Mitt comes in first definitely stop by Hugh’s blog tonight to watch him completely lose his mind in Mitt-based euphoria.