News broke earlier today that the Clintons loaned $5 million of their own dollars to Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign in the run-up to Super Tuesday. On the heels of that announcement, the New York Times blog The Caucus reported that Senator Clinton was considering another loan to her campaign due to the cost of the Super Tuesday contests.

You knew it might happen, one way or the other: Senate Republicans successfully blocked the expansion of the economic stimulus package on a 58-41 vote. All this means for the moment is that the jockeying isn't over. This will come up again (and sooner rather than later) as pressure mounts to get the stimulus package out the door.

Apparently the DNC is pushing the two naughty states, Florida and Michigan, to hold caucuses. This is not what I thought the solution to the unseated delegate conundrum would be. George says it is a win-win, in that Michigan and Florida got to be somewhat influential and the party gets to say that everyone gets their delegates when they straighten up and act right. I think this shows other states that it is okay to fly in the face of central authority. We'll see if it shakes out.

Back in October, we reported that TxDOT was claiming it was out of money. I said then that I thought it might have a little something to do with a PR ploy in favor of Proposition 12's passage. Turns out I was wrong, and it was simply an accounting error. A billion dollar accounting error.

Mitt Romney may resort to trying to hijack as-yet uncommitted delegates as part of his strategy to stay in the race. Memo to Mitt: that is not what I would call "a plan for future involvement in national Republican politics."

What a confusing picture! Obama won more states than I expected, 13 or 14 out of 22, most of them by huge margins (20%+, with some as much as 60%), but Clinton won most of the big states by solid margins (10-20%). The squeakers were CT and MO, both of which went to Obama, and NM, which is still too close to call. You can count on both sides claiming overall victory.

Politico has a refresher on the delegate tallies, which appear inexact at best and will change as soon as New Mexico is called. Is this stuff tense or what?

A few days ago we shared the story that the National Republican Congressional Committee had called the FBI on itself over what seemed to be some accounting problems. Today the problems become a little more clear: turns out, someone at the NRCC may have forged an audit during the 2006 midterms, and there might be several election cycles' worth of financial malfeasance. More bad news and trouble for the GOP.

Romney takes Alaska and New Mexico looks like it will go Obama although it is very close. Phillip Martin sent me this, which is a close examination of how the vote in New Mexico is shaking out: a dead heat at 48/48 with 95% reporting.

Obama wins the Alaska Democratic caucuses and NBC is using the term "Apparent Winner" to describe McCain and Obama in Missouri. "Apparent Winner" is a new one on me.