Mike Huckabee

Rhode Island tonight gave N.Y. Sen. Hillary Clinton her first win since Feb. 5, according to NBC News.

In other news, former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee has just finished conceding in the Republican primary, saying he had "fought the good fight" and congratulating Ariz. Sen. John McCain on waging a "civil" campaign.

Ohio and Texas remain too close to call for Clinton and Ill. Sen. Barack Obama.

With polls just closed, all three of the 24-hour news networks have projected that Barack Obama and John McCain will win Vermont's delegates to their respective party conventions.

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Ariz. Sen. John McCain campaigns in Michigan.: Getty Images PhotoRepublican presidential hopeful John McCain has opened his first campaign offices in Nevada and is furiously building a staff here, according to Paul Jackson, McCain’s Nevada state director.  These moves come as a new poll by the Reno Gazette-Journal shows McCain with a lead in the state for the first time since May.

“We’ve been working day and night,” said Jackson, describing McCain’s newly-minted Nevada effort.  “Little sleep and lots of coffee.”

Nevada’s Jan. 19 Republican caucus has been largely overlooked by the Republican field, with the exceptions of former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney and Tex. Congressman Ron Paul, as they’ve focused instead on Michigan’s primary Tuesday and South Carolina’s Saturday.  Despite McCain’s new efforts here, his campaign will have a lot of catching up to do to compete with the strong organization that Romney, in particular, has built in the state.

The campaign of former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee today announced the start of a five-day campaign tour through South Carolina that will keep the governor in the Palmetto State through the Jan. 19th primary.

This tour will preclude Gov. Huckabee from campaigning in Nevada ahead of its Republican caucus also scheduled for Jan. 19.

As reported by PolitickerNV.com Friday, Huckabee had hoped to make it to Nevada, but is instead focusing on Michigan and South Carolina.

With GOP presidential candidates largely ignoring the Nevada presidential caucus on Saturday -- Ron Paul is the only Republican scheduled to be in the state this week -- the contest may offer some evidence as to the value of endorsements in a race that may be wide open. Here's a list of our GOP stakeholders, along with their percentage in the Reno Gazette-Journal poll - which suggests the possibility of a four-way contest on the Republican side:

After New Hampshire, should you believe the pollsters? The Reno Gazette-Journal  poll, conducted by Research 2000, has a new Nevada presidential caucus poll that shows Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in a statistical dead heat among likely Democratic caucus voters: Obama 32%, Clinton 30%. And John Edwards is in range with 27%.

On the Republican side, the poll has John McCain and Rudy Giuliani in also in a dead heat, with McCain leading 22%-18%. Mike Huckabee is at 16%, Mitt Romney is at 15%, Fred Thompson at 11%, Ron Paul at 6%, and Duncan Hunter at 1%.

The RGJ’s Anjeanette Damon has the new Research 2000 Nevada presidential caucus poll numbers. The survey, conducted January 11-13, has a 4.5 percent margin of error. The sample size is 500 likely Republican caucus voters and 500 likely Democratic caucus voters.  read more »

Former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee at the FoxNews Republican debate in South Carolina Thursday.: Getty Images photoFollowing an address at the Detroit Economic Club, Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee hosted a teleconference for reporters today in which he took questions about predominantly economic issues, but did briefly discuss the Jan. 19 Nevada Republican caucus.

“We’re not giving up that we can get out there, we just don’t know how well we can play in the short period of time we have,” said Huckabee.

Despite surprise losses in yesterday’s Iowa caucuses, the campaigns of both N.Y. Sen. Hillary Clinton and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney expressed confidence in their prospects for winning their party’s respective nominations today, both hosting post-Iowa conference calls with an eye to the other early-voting states.

“We have twenty-six more contests coming up” by Feb. 5, said Terry McAuliffe, former DNC Chair and Clinton’s national campaign chairman. 

“One huge advantage that we have in the Clinton campaign is that from day one, we were going to run a national campaign.”  McAuliffe cited fundraising numbers over $100 million and an organizational presence in all twenty seven Super Tuesday or earlier states for support.