THAT WAS FAST

Gep drops out.

"My campaign to fight for working people may be ending tonight, but our fight will never end," Gephardt said in a post-caucus speech that sounded like a political farewell. Aides said he would formally drop out of the race at a St. Louis news conference at midday on Wednesday.

Here's to Richard Gephardt, for nearly three decades of fighting for the values of the Democratic party in Washington.