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NBC kicked off its coverage with a four-candidate wheel: Mitchell with Rodham Clinton, Cowan with Obama, Kelly O'Donnell (no link) with John McCain and Ron Allen (no link) with Mike Huckabee. Allen caught the short straw: "Huckabee is not having a big election night party. He is going to appear in the public lobby of a bank building in downtown Little Rock…another example of how he continues his campaign on a very low budget." McCain meanwhile returned to his day job on Capitol Hill where "he asked his fellow GOP lawmakers to help him unite the party," as O'Donnell put it.
CBS' in-house political analyst Nicolle Wallace told the network's Chip Reid (no link) that the Republican primary contest is like a football game: "McCain is ahead 56-3. Every field goal that Huckabee scores gives him reason to keep going but there is no chance he is going to catch him." ABC's George Stephanopoulos called it "mathematically impossible" for Huckabee to prevail. Yet on NBC, Tim Russert (no link) predicted that if Huckabee gets out enough of the evangelical vote to pull off a victory in Virginia "look for him to go down to Texas full of vim and vinegar." And on CBS, Bob Schieffer (no link) quoted exit polls from that "very, very conservative state" that showed that almost two thirds of Republican voters listen to talkradio, which has been blasting McCain non stop.
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