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What follows is The Collegian’s coverage of the Nevada Caucus and the Republican South Carolina primary. It comes by alternating embellishment of CNN’s coverage and mocking of it, with worthwhile coverage interspersed throughout.
Be sure to check out The Collegian’s LiveBlogging of the Democratic South Carolina primary on the afternoon of next Saturday.
7:11 p.m. — McCain’s [...]

BARACK OBAMA DOESN’T campaign a day that some news station doesn’t make a specious claim that compares him to some failed presidential candidates.

MITT ROMNEY IS MORMON. I open with his religion instead of introducing him as a candidate because it is Romney himself who, yesterday, decided that it would be a good idea to address the already controversial issue of religion. He gave a speech that addressed it directly — “Faith in America,” which was meant to restore potential voters’ faith in him as a man who can separate church and state.

Each candidate at the CNN-YouTube Republican debates last week had their own song and dance. Let’s take a look at the candidates: be they winners or losers of the debate, they’re players nonetheless.
Mike Huckabee
The rising star of the Republicans can mostly attribute his recent success to this last debate. Over the following weekend, he topped [...]

REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES RON PAUL and Mitt Romney are polar opposites. Romney has a good shot at winning the nomination. Ron Paul doesn’t.

The Collegian Online asks, “What presidential candidate are you leaning towards?”

This blog is a companion piece to a related column.
One of the curiosities of the 2008 election is that it is the first wide-open race — where neither a president nor a vice president seeks nomination — since 1928. That’s Herbert Hoover’s nomination, homefry. Hoover has been out of office for longer than my grandparents [...]

“HOW DO WE beat the bitch?” A South Carolina voter asked Republican candidate John McCain at a campaign event earlier this month.

Republican candidate Mike Huckabee has one message for America, and it’s Chuck Norris.

“My plan to secure the border? Two words: Chuck Norris.”