Posted on 01/19/2008 6:06:01 AM PST by vikingd00d
Today is the day.
35 - McCain
30 - Huckabee
15 - Thompson
14 - Romney
4 - Giuliani
2 - Paul
38% Precincts Reporting
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Not alphabetical?
McCain 52,472 35% 0
Huckabee 44,969 30% 0
Thompson 23,013 15% 0
Romney 21,579 14% 0
Paul 5,630 4% 0
Giuliani 3,152 2% 0
Hunter 351 0%
I’m done with Fox. CNN’s coverage is surprisingly better anyway. Listening to Fred and Mort stutter and argue gets old.
Have you all seen this map from Politico?
Go to Politico.com then click “See detailed results for South Carolina Primary.”
The Java map has the same general numbers that everyone has, but it allows you to click on each county, to see the local breakdown, and which counties have reported so far.
I know McCain will be gone, he just can’t hold, he is already getting snippy. Of course some may not care. I know the GOP big dogs are not fond of the idea of going into the main fight with McCain, way too risky.
Huck may be around if folks really are not paying attention. If that holds, they deserve him. I’ll move my money off shore and enjoy the whining about taxes and the follow on economic screw ups. I have to thing he will get worse, especially with Rollins on his staff. Something will bite him in the ass.
But get those two out and the fight goes Fred vs Romney with Rudy keeping it interesting.....
I agree. My precinct was moved to a different location today, we shared a location with a heavy dem adjacent precinct. When I voted around noon, the other precinct had 3 signatures on their sign-in sheet. I asked, there were not previous pages, they had 3 voters half-way through the day.
Agreed. I’m just afraid he’ll endorse McCain.
Yep.
I was thinking that the best speech at the convention will not be delivered by the nominee, but by Fred. What a shame.
Is FL an open primary? I am not sure if Mitt does better against McCain than Huck. McCain has a lot of broad support within and outside the party. I was hoping Huck would win. I thought it would be easier to defeat Huck than McCain.
If the Dems were making any mischief, it would be middle aged black women doing it here. I’ve seen it happen. They crashed the primary two years ago to get a Repub elected that supported a MLK holiday for the county. It worked.
The first ones are in order of how many votes they have, but not Romney and Thompson. For some reason even though Fred has more votes they put Romney ahead.
Too true.
Still,the SC results appear to reflect the views of Rush Limbaugh.
McCain is winning among the libs and moderates with a smattering of single-issue (national security)folks thrown in.
Huck is also doing well with libs and moderates with a heepin’ helpin’ of single-issue (abortion)born-agains added.
So Mitt and Fred are fighting over the voters who are not lying when they say they are true,all-the-way conservatives.
Thus 3rd place is gold and 4th silver as far as the national impact on future “closed” primaries in the South are concerned.
Besides,with Huck and McCain doing so well today,I expect record low turnout for the Dem primary next Saturday—can’t vote in both y’know.
It’s not going to matter at this point. It will be:
McCain
Huckabee
Thompson/Romney
Thompson needed to be #2. Being #3 or #4 isn’t going to cut it. Giuiliani is the only one with a shot, other than McCain, Huck and Romney.
Can’t wait to see how the FRedheads spin it when Fred endorses McCain and it becomes painfully clear he was a shill all along.
2,380 total delegates at convention
1081 delegates to be won on Super Tuesday.
So far 211 won by at least 6 candidates (including today) not all pledged.
It’s a long haul ahead.
I wish he had been able to run hard in SC while he was in Nevada, but on the other hand, it made no difference to him whether he ended up third or barely fourth. If he couldn’t come in 1st or 2nd, it didn’t matter.
By focusing on Neveda, Romney actually took over 50% of the vote in a 5-way race. Nobody else is going to do that.
So he’s won 3 of 6, and those three are still looking like the 3 biggest victory totals (66% Wyoming, 53% Nevada, 39% Michigan).
Rudy might win Florida, and try to take all their delegates because he owns the party apparatus, but he’ll do it with under 30% of the vote if he does. McCain isn’t doing much better than 30% in South Carolina.
NO!
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