We are going to put up two separate threads, one for Nevada where Democrats are caucusing, and a separate thread for South Carolina where Republicans are voting.

The Nevada Caucus early entrance polls are HERE (via NBC) and CNN has a live-blog of ongoing events HERE.  Politico has Caucus Results REPORTING HERE

UPDATE 5:24pm EST – AP Calls Race for Hillary Clinton

BREAKING: Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic caucuses in Nevada. @AP race call at 5:15 p.m. EST. #Election2016 #APracecall

— The Associated Press (@AP) February 20, 2016

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Nice campaign family you got there Bernie, it’d be a shame if something happened to it them….. Gnome Sayin’?…

Washington DC – A top aide for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Monday ripped attacks on Bill Clinton’s past infidelity by GOP rival Donald Trump, saying Trump has gone “in the gutter.”

Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta also issued a warning to Clinton’s Democratic rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to stay away from the topic.

“I hope he’s not going there,” Podesta said of Sanders during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” after the host noted it seems “there’s some piling on here” by Sanders.  “He said that he’s going to run a positive campaign, that he wasn’t going to go in for personal attacks and I take him at his word on that,” Podesta continued. (more…)

Chuck Todd has a ‘splodey because Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are in agreement to deal with ISIS first, then focus on Syria’s leader Bashir Assad after ISIS is removed from influence.

The worst moment for Chuck Todd was anticipating Trump to walk away from Democrat Sanders, just because Bernie’s a Democrat, but Trump stood firm – “sometimes even a Democrat can be right once in a while”….

The third Democrat debate is tonight in New Hampshire at 8:00pmEST. It could contain more fireworks than anticipated following news that Bernie Sanders’ campaign had been suspended from using a Democratic National Committee voter database. The Sanders campaign filed a lawsuit against the DNC yesterday demanding its access be restored.

The debate is being held at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. and moderated by uber progressives David Muir and Martha Raddatz of ABC News. Muir and Raddatz were supposed to be joined by WMUR-TV anchor Josh McElveen, but the station was removed as a co-host of the debate after failing to resolve a labor dispute.

The Debate is Being Livestreamed by ABC News – AVAILABLE HERE As well as being broadcast on ABC networks.  If you’re watching feel free to share your comments and opinions below.

Jeff Weaver with the Bernie Sanders Campaign discusses the ongoing issues with the DNC:

There is no doubt the DNC is 100% in the tank for Hillary Clinton; to claim otherwise is to be obtuse beyond the scope of intellectual honesty.  Bernie Sanders has been up against the Clinton machine for the past several months.  Things are now becoming untenable within the campaigns, and no-one does ‘nasty’ like the Clintons, no-one.

WASHINGTON DC – A civil war erupted within the Democratic Party on Friday after news that Bernie Sanders’ campaign took advantage of a technological glitch to access, search and save one of Hillary Clinton’s most valuable campaign assets — her voter files.

Tension rapidly escalated throughout the day as the Democratic National Committee cut off Sanders’ access to his own voter files, effectively crippling his field operation, and the senator retaliated by suing the party and accusing its leaders of plotting to hand the presidential nomination to Clinton. (more…)

No, nothing to see here folks…. nothing at all.  Move along, move along…. Pay no attention to the planning and strategy session.

(Via Politico) This Saturday’s second Democratic debate will be a much smaller affair than the first. With only three candidates on stage, CBS News plans to delve deep into the issues with each candidate and have taken advantage of the smaller pool by doing some intense research.

Moderator John Dickerson and his team met with each of the campaigns for more than an hour to discuss the major issues at play in the race, sources on the campaigns said, describing the pre-interview as “informational in nature.” Dickerson is not giving candidates previews of his questions for the debate.

Prior to the CNN debate, the campaigns said moderator Anderson Cooper did not reach out directly to them before the candidates took the stage. (more…)

Yesterday you might have noticed some media stories about Donald Trump and the possibility of Secret Service protection or lack thereof.

This coincides with a prior day event in Richmond Virginia where race-based activists from the “Black Lives Matter” movement attempted to disrupt the rally. (more…)

I’m re-posting a portion of an earlier article below because something is beginning that will have long-term consequences.  Always try to pay attention to the “bigger picture” as we travel amid the daily events.

Amid the ozone layer of political consequence the Billionaire class of Rupert Murdoch, George Soros, and yes Charles Koch operate on (and invest in) issues that pertain to their interests.  They may not carry the same beliefs on down-stream issues; but in their own financial neighborhoods they are globalists first and foremost.  This is why we identify them collectively as the Wall Street Class.

In the most direct and consequential sense, free flowing immigration, amnesty, and open borders play into their goals and objectives.  They are diametrically opposed to -and afraid of- nationalism.  The Koch Brothers are open-border advocates.

In many very deliberate ways the 2016 Presidential Election is morphing into a battle between the globalists (wall street etc., corporate media, democrats, Hillary Clinton and GOPe republicans Jeb Bush) and the nationalists represented by Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump and the largest section of the U.S. electorate.

TONIGHT: Charles Koch opens up in a rare public interview. Don’t miss it at 9p ET on #KellyFile!

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) October 15, 2015

This decision by Fox News (via Megyn Kelly) is part of the larger maneuver to advance Marco Rubio as the vulgarian alternative.  ie. Wall Street’s “fail safe”.

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