Romney Rolls In Michigan, Democrats Deal In Vegas

While most of you were watching Simon, Randy and Paula suffer through bad singing on American Idol, the good folks of Michigan braved snow and ice to go to the polls in their state's presidential primary.

Mitt Romney, son of the former Michigan governor and 1968 presidential candidate, picked up a needed win on the Republican side to keep his campaign going. John McCain was second, and Mike Huckabee came in third.

Hillary Clinton was the big winner in the Democratic primary, though it was kind of misleading. Since the party penalized Michigan for daring to move its voting ahead of Super Tuesday by stripping them of delegates to the national convention (they did the same thing to Florida), no other major candidate bothered to put their name on the ballot.

Instead, Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards were in Las Vegas for yet another televised debate, this one for MSNBC (Dennis Kucinich tried to sue his way onto the stage, but a judge ruled in favor of NBC News' keeping him out). After Clinton claimed over the weekend that President Lyndon Johnson had more to do with the 1964 Civil Rights Act than Martin Luther King, Jr., leading to hard feelings in the Obama camp, the two made nice on the race relations front just in time for King's actual birthday (the federal holiday is Monday).

Other than that, the only real news to come out of the debate was Edwards' stating that in his first year in office, all combat troops would leave Iraq. Clinton and Obama said much the same thing, but didn't go as far as Edwards did.

Nevada and South Carolina are next.