As expected, Mitt Romney had an overwhelming win in Nevada, another step in his increasingly likely march toward the Republican nomination. The substance of his victory speech was a mostly paint by numbers attack on President Obama, but he delivered it in front of a loud and energized group of supporters. With each victory he chalks up — and there will likely be more this month — he looks and acts more and more like the nominee.

The only real drama in Nevada — if you could call it that — was the race for second place and how Newt Gingrich would react to the results. Right now, Gingrich is leading Ron Paul, but there aren’t enough results in to say whether the lead will hold. But the big story for him was the decision to forgo a standard election night speech in favor of a press conference.