Romney Wins Nevada! SC Falls Short.

Very solid win, getting "gold" in the "silver state" of Nevada. Over 50% of the vote went to Romney, which has not been done by a Republican candidate in any state other than maybe Romney in Wyoming.

In South Carolina, two of my hopes have been dashed, though it may not be a big deal. One is that I'm convinced Huckabee is doomed regardless, so I thought if he beat out McCain it would cripple McCain a bit. But McCain won a narrow victory. Two is that I wanted Romney to beat Thompson for third place, but with over 90% of votes reported, Romney is behind some 2,700 votes, so not likely to quite do it.

Here are the updated delegate totals:
Romney 72
McCain 38
Huckabee 29
Thompson 8
Paul 6
Giuliani 2
Hunter 1 (Hunter announced he is now withdrawing from the race)

By the way, there are some media comments already about how much support Romney got from Mormons in Vegas and the rest of Nevada. Here's a post from Arizonans for Mitt blog that puts it in perspective:

"I've already seen headlines at MSN.com that say Romney gets the Mormon vote. I wonder if this is the MSM's attempt to further rile up Evangelicals in hopes of getting MSM's favoite RINO--Mike Huckabee--more votes in future elections.

But here are the facts.

Mitt got 94% of the vote in Nevada. That means he did worse than Bush in 2004 in the general election were "W" got 95% of the Mormon vote in the entire country.

Bush isn't Mormon. Mormons like conservatives. Romney's a conservative."