Ending a tortured process that unveiled infighting within its ranks, the Service Employees International Union Nevada tonight endorsed Sen. Barack Obama. Former Sen. John Edwards also was in the running, and Sen. Hillary Clinton was broadly dismissed.
More details in my story in the Sun Wednesday morning.

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With Unite Here’s executive committee set to vote via conference call on its presidential endorsement this evening, the John Edwards campaign is sending signals the endorsement, which carries the Culinary brand name here, won’t be going its way.
Edwards’ Nevada campaign sent out an e-mail a few minutes ago with the following subject line, culled from […]

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The John Edwards campaign held a conference call this afternoon making their case for the former North Carolina senator, vowing to take the nomination fight all the way the Democratic National Convention.
Still, they spent a good deal of time bashing Sen. Hillary Clinton, painting her as the “status quo” candidate controlled by Washington lobbyists.
With Obama […]

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Ben Smith of Sun partner Politico writes on his blog that he got an early look at the CNN/WMUR poll taken Jan. 4 and 5, and it shows a dead heat, with very little bounce out of Iowa for Obama.

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The 60,000-strong union of casino and hotel workers was expected to make a presidential endorsement after the Iowa caucus, but Saturday,  the union said it will wait until after next week’s New Hampshire primary.
 A spokeswoman for the Culinary union said an announcement will come Wednesday morning. 
The delay is the result of an apparent internal disagreement between the Culinary […]

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CONCORD, N.H. — Two new New Hampshire polls show the Iowa results are spilling over into New Hampshire: American Research Group gives Illinois Sen. Barack Obama a 12 point lead, while Rasmussen paints a 10 point spread.   Neither is the Gallup for accuracy, but it shows the movement.
On the ground, the polls feel right. Obama is […]

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Some overnight analysis.
Peter Wallsten in the LA Times crunches the numbers.
The turnout was 80 percent larger than 2004’s big turnout.
Wallsten: “Long viewed as an insular process dominated by longtime political activists, Thursday’s first-in-the-nation voting event of the 2008 campaign turned out to be a forum for unaffiliated voters and first-time participants to say they […]

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — It’s 4 a.m. and I’m sitting here at Eastern Iowa Airport waiting on a flight back to Vegas. I can’t wait to get back to a place that doesn’t dip into the single digits, but I’m still awestruck by my Iowa experience and what happened in this tiny, nearly all-white state […]

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Iowa roundup.
To start off, it’s impossible to overstate how significant last night is to American politics. And also Nevada politics (though you’ll have to wait for the Sun print edition for that analysis.) Voters in Iowa roundly rejected their respective party establishments, as noted in this New York Times analysis.
People want something different.
What […]

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MANCHESTER, N.H. — Best celeb sighting: Ben Jones, who played “Cooter” in the TV version of “The Dukes of Hazzard.”
He’s endorsed John Edwards. Apparently this man was in Congress. Who knew?

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