[ngat]

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

[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.