Romney: "Don't turn the pharmaceuticals into the big, bad guys."
McCain: "They are."

[WaPo]

Huckabee's 35% is a whopping 11% over Romney's. McCain came in fourth with 12%, barely topping Ron Paul (11%, fifth). This is almost as good as he was expecting -- Thompson came in third with 14%, so he probably would not withdraw yet, but apart from that this is as good as can be expected going into the New Hampshire primaries.

Obama just beat Edwards and Clinton, 33-33-32. Not sure if the vote tally is finalized (edit: it is), and this is technically a 3-way tie, but this is almost Hillary's nightmare scenario!

Looks like each party's most phoney candidates are on the way out.

Update 22:02 -- over 120,000 people in the Republican caucus, and over 200,000 people in the Democratic caucus! Whoa

Update 23:28 -- Obama is substantially ahead of Edwards and Clinton (38-30-29), and McCain is actually much closer to Thompson (and further ahead than Paul -- 13-13-10) than earlier projected [wapo].

For the first time since the 1950s, Labour has lost in a Scottish election.

If the result stands, the Scottish Nationalists will form the next government, with a long-term aim of secession from the United Kingdom. Canadians will be familiar with this, the SNP being quite similar to Parti Québécois in its separatism and economic policies.

As a romantic nationalist at heart, this makes for very good news. If a new constitutional settlement is reached with the rest of the United Kingdom (presumably keeping Scotland in the EU in any case), it'll be a model of how a nation can protect its cultural identity without xenophobia or economic meltdown.