Hillary Clinton just won the Nevada caucus, and to judge from the news reporting she’s now the clear front-runner and Barack Obama is an abject failure. Maybe. Maybe not. Here are the actual numbers:

Hillary Rodham Clinton 5,284 50.8%
Barack Obama 4,684 45.1
John Edwards 389 3.7
Uncommitted 31 0.3
Dennis J. Kucinich 4 0.0

So here’s the real story:

1. In a state with 2.5 million people, and almost 400,000 registered Democrats, only about 11,000 Democrats voted.

2. Of those 11,000 (out of the 400,000, out of the 2.5 million), only 600 — SIX HUNDRED — more voted for Clinton than Obama. So, advice to Mr. Obama: No need to bail just yet.

3. Finally, out of all those squiddillions of people, only 4 voted for Dennis Kucinich. Given what I’ve been witness to there, I would have thought that Las Vegas alone had a larger lunatic fringe than that, but I guess not. Clearly, Mr. Kucinich enjoys running for president; very few others are as enthused about it.

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