According to the Associated Press, Bernie Sanders has won the Democratic presidential caucuses in Utah and Idaho.

Donald Trump has won the Republican presidential caucuses in Nevada, the Associated Press reports. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are still vying for second.

On Tuesday, as Glenn Beck was speaking on behalf of Ted Cruz, Donald Trump barged into the gymnasium at Palo Verde High School in Summerlin, Nevada, to glad-hand and distract everyone from voting for anyone other than himself.

Hillary Clinton, perhaps the candidate most closely affiliated with lots and lots of money, unsurprisingly won the casinos during Saturday’s Nevada caucus, according to PBS’s Jon Ralston.

Each day seems to bring a new video from the hacktivist collective Anonymous threatening some spectacular attack, then everyone freaks out. This week, Anonymous is threatening to disrupt the Iowa Caucuses. After a month of fake Anonymous scares, we call bullshit.

Republican Inter-State Party Catfight Alert! New Hampshire is threatening to move its first-in-the-nation primary date to either December 6 or 13 if Nevada doesn't move back its scheduled January 14 caucuses. The Nevada party chair's actual text-message reaction: "WHAT??!!!"

Your favorite wingnut Minnesota congresscritter Michele Bachmann has made even more history today. Congress has approved her application to form an official House Tea Party Caucus! Get excited for constant parking lot donnybrooks with the Congressional Black Caucus.

Tonight: the Iowa Caucuses. Also tonight: The Orange Bowl! As the Iowa caucuses require quite a bit more evening activity from participants than simpler primary elections, we can't help but wonder which candidates' supporters are most likely to skip the caucuses to watch a nationally televised, sure-to-be-thrilling bowl game between Kansas and tragedy stricken Virginia Tech. Huckabee, who already earned a bit of ire in the heartland by telling Iowans that the game would be boring, seems an easy bet, as does fellow good ol' boy Fred Thompson. But as the GOP require only a straw poll, unlike the more involved politicking of the Dems, it might be Edwards (who would love nothing more than to appeal to the type of Iowans who love college football) who's hurt most. Of course caucusing is so archaic, annoying, and inconvenient that no one turns up to do it any year regardless of what's on TV. Besides the same couple thousand old white folks who've chosen our terrible leaders and their ineffectual challengers for the last century or so. [KansasCity.com]
Photo: "Iowa Bus Tour: Football Break" by John Edwards 2008