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Las Vegas accountant Andrew MartinHENDERSON-Andrew Martin will end his campaign for Congressional District 3 today, according to aides, and will instead challenge Republican Chad Christensen in the 13th Assembly District.

Martin, a Las Vegas-based accountant, announced for CD3 last year, but his campaign was largely overlooked by Democratic heavyweights U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Rep. Shelley Berkley, Nevada Senate Minority Leader Dina Titus and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, in favor of former Clark County chief deputy district attorney Robert Daskas.

Immediately following Daskas' withdrawal from the race Monday, state and national Democrats began calling for Titus to run in his stead.  Titus' announcement is expected in minutes.

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.

CNN has projected that John McCain has clinched the Republican presidential nomination.

McCain’s victories in Vermont, Ohio and Texas have topped off a whirlwind comeback from the summer of 2007 when most political analysts believed his candidacy was over.

According to CNN, McCain will go to the White House as early as Wednesday to be endorsed by President George W. Bush.

A concession speech by former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee is expected shortly.

Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, winner of the Nevada GOP caucuses, will endorse Ariz. Sen. John McCain for their party's presidential nomination today, according to NBC News.

The endorsement will reportedly be made in just more than two hours at Romney campaign headquarters in Boston.  McCain is expected to attend.

Numerous sources are calling the caucus for Hillary Clinton.

From the AP:

NBC has projected that former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney has won the Nevada Republican caucuses.

The projection came before any official results were released by the Nevada Republican Party.

Judge James C. Mahan of the United States District Court of Nevada has ruled against the Nevada State Education Association and allowed the Nevada Democratic Party to go ahead with their at-large caucus sites as planned.

"I don't see a basis for an injunction here," said Mahan.  "The parties have a right to determine how they're going to apportion delegates to the party conventions."

The ruling followed an acrimonious week that has pitted, among others, the Nevada State Education Association against the Culinary Workers Union and Clark County Democratic Chairman John Hunt against the Nevada Democratic Party.

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HENDERSON -- A national fund-raising e-mail from Barack Obama's presidential campaigns uses Nevada to frame how their national campaign is going.

The e-mail does not even mention South Carolina, though over the weekend the Obama and Hillary Clinton campaigns were trying to access whether the Nevada's caucus this Saturday or South Carolina's primary a week later was more important.

The e-mail is below:

HENDERSON -- If you need a sign that the Nevada Caucuses are becoming more important each moment consider the news that John Kerry will campaign on behalf of Barack Obama in Nevada.

Details have not been released for his two-day campaign swing on Thursday and Friday.

In the wide open Democratic presidential contest a Nevada victory could help propel the winner into front-runner status before South Carolina votes a week later.

Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, endorsed Obama last Friday in South Carolina.

The Associated Press has reported that former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has ended his presidential campaign.  An announcement from Gov. Richardson is expected tomorrow.

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