SC Primary Map

LATimes ^ | LA Times

[vmivol00]

PercentDelegates*

Gingrich 194,459 votes 40.6% 15

Romney 128,066 votes 26.8% 0

Santorum 83,408 votes 17.4% 0

Paul 64,348 votes 13.4% 0

Cain 4,832 votes 1.0% 0

Other 3,464 votes 0.7%0 * South Carolina lost half of its 50 delegates as a result of breaking Republican party rules and moving its primary forward to Jan. 21. The party will award the remaining 25 delegates based on the results of individual congressional districts as well as the overall tally.

[vmivol00]

Check out the county map. Newt won almost every county! This was an absolute whipping. The map illustrates this much better than just the numbers. If you get a chance, compare it to the 2008 map.

[Arm_Bears]

What’s also noteworthy is Romney being stuck at about 25% of the vote (85.7% of precincts reporting, 27.1% of vote).

[Red Steel]

19 delegates so far for Gingrich. None for the other candidates.

[ngat]

Huh? SC has 25 delegates to award and LA Times graphic says Newt gets 19 and nobody else gets any.

[isthisnickcool]

I’d sure like to see the same number from the previous election cycles that reflect the vote count for those elections...

[vmivol00]

I saw it on Fox. It was about 50/50 split. I’m sure you can google it.

[big'ol_freeper]

Next...

[Always A Marine]

"South Carolina lost half of its 50 delegates as a result of breaking Republican party rules and moving its primary forward to Jan. 21. The party will award the remaining 25 delegates based on the results of individual congressional districts as well as the overall tally."

There's your answer. South Carolina is being punished for thwarting "The Plan" to coronate Mitt Romney. By moving the date of its primary forward, the SC GOP put a conservative state amid the early slate of liberal states like New Hampshire and manipulable "caucus" states like Iowa, which have always been scheduled early to give a head start to RINOs and create a sense of their "inevitability" before Conservative states can have their say. The people who run the GOP are not our friends.

[vmivol00]

The GOP is no friend of conservatives.

[vmivol00]

Watch for the long knives from the Reps and Senators. Of course I’m not sure how much their opinion or endorsements will count considering Congress’s pitiful approval rating.

[ngat]

Well, we all know the RNC rigs the rules to acheive the results they want, but getting back to Gingrich getting 19 delegates according to the graphic, who gets the other six? the asterisk that leads to the quote didn’t give any specific answer.

[newzjunkey]

Washington Post claimed the other six are apportioned based on the wins in congressional districts. They had Newt winning "at least four" of those.

It's unclear what the final totals will be.

[JerseyanExile]

It seems like just who won what in the congressional districts won't be clear for a while. According to The Green Papers: We have it on good authority that- this evening- the vote from the SOUTH CAROLINA Republican Primary is not being displayed by Congressional District because the District boundaries are still not set due to court challenges over Reapportionment after the 2010 Census (a reminder: the presidential candidate with the most votes in each Congressional District in South Carolina is to be pledged 2 National Convention delegates [while the Statewide winner in South Carolina gets the pledges of 11 National Convention delegates in addition to any Congressional District delegates he might also win]) This is being noted in order to remind interested persons that any report of delegates per candidate per Congressional District in South Carolina you might see in various sources right now may well be subject to future change; and this may also prove to also be an issue in States holding primaries and/or caucuses later on!

[Red Steel]

Newt has 23 delegates now according to the LA slimes.

[ngat]

Thanks for the heads-up. I guess they were waiting to get a total count on the delegates tied to congressional district results. Another source said all 6 SC districts looked like Gingrich wins, which would make it a sweep and account for all 25 delegates.