Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008 | 5:48 p.m.
The delegates awarded in today's Democratic caucus will be binding. Not so for the Republican caucus, which partially explains why most leading candidates focused on South Carolina.
To appease the national Republican Party who didn't support the early caucus, state leaders decided the delegates awarded to the winner would be non-binding.
But Mitt Romney, who decisively crushed the field Saturday, told me on Thursday night he anticipated the winner would get the 34 delegates.
"My expectation is the person who you vote for is the person who gets it," he said in a brief interview in an SUV on Thursday.
Nevada's Republican contest predictably trailed South Carolina's in attention. South Carolina is a traditional early contest -- unlike Nevada -- and its delegates are binding.
But Nevada Sen. John Ensign wasn't complaining.
"We weren't the only focus today," Ensign told me at a Republican party at Las Vegas Academy. "That's OK. At least we were a focus."
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