Posted on 02/20/2016 1:14:14 PM PST by Maelstorm
Who turned out in today's South Carolina Republican primary and what motivated their votes?
For all the answers, bookmark this page or save it in the ABC News app now and come back shortly after 5 p.m. ET for the first wave of South Carolina primary exit poll results. Polls close at 7 p.m. ET.
The ABC News Analysis Desk will be updating this page with live analysis of the exit polls.
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Late this week, residents told ABC News they were receiving more than a dozen “robo-calls†a night. A recent one, released Thursday night by the pro-Cruz Super PAC Courageous Conservative Political Action Committee, bashed Trump for encouraging the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state house.
I got that robot call it was quite nasty and I don’t think effective.
Direct link to abc news stream:
http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=1
Record turnouts in SC. Should be favoring Trump.
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CNN showing Nevada with 61% of precincts reporting:
Clinton 52.2%
Sanders 47.7%.
Robo not robot
help needed. thanks.
today,
Reps in SC, primary
Dems in Nevada, caucus.
what about, Reps in NV and Dems in SC ?
Placemark
SC will have about 80 to 100 times as many voters today as Nevada has caucus goers. NV will be done early. It’s the tiniest of all state primary/caucus universes.
They will analyze who’s showing up and how many. They won’t give vote totals.
In my elected office experience I found that a huge turnout signifies a protest vote 99.99% of the time.
This should favor Mr. Trump.
I prophesied a tsunami for Trump in NH and SC....and I'm sticking with it (although tonight I would settle for a smaller tidal wave, LOL.
Leni
If I remember correctly South Carolina voters may choose which party the vote for as they vote in the primary. No pre registration needed.
Can’t wait to hear Cruz’s victory speech.
The one in New Hampshire was priceless.
I’m looking at your link to the Primary Polling Location in Mt Pleasant, SC from ABC. It brings back fond memories of what it was like before we went to all Vote By Mail many years ago here in Washington State.
I honestly enjoyed standing in line with folks participating in this sweet process. I never looked at them as liberals or conservatives, just fellow Americans who loved their country enough to take the time to come down and vote.
A huge turnout of Republicans may signify a protest vote, but for the Dems I think it means two very clearly different approaches to problems Dems care about and a generational divide as well. Based on years of political activism.
"They make up the three different constituencies of the primary electorate," said Clemson University political scientist David Woodard... The GOP controls South Carolina's nine statewide offices and holds large majorities in both state legislative chambers, both U.S. Senate seats and six of seven U.S. House seats. The overall primary winner will receive at least 29 of the state's 50 delegates, and the remainder go to the winners in each congressional district, said Josh Putman, a University of Georgia political scientist. The state's 2.9 million registered voters don't declare a party preference; they choose whether to vote in this primary or the Democratic primary on Feb. 27. Kenneth Battle, an Air Force retiree and board chair of the South Carolina commission for minority affairs... who calls himself a "Frederick Douglass Republican," referring to the Civil War-era abolitionist leader, Battle favors retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson. His second choice: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz... South Carolina voters traditionally have picked the eventual GOP nominee, Woodard said. An exception was in 2012, when they favored former House Speaker Newt Gingrich over Mitt Romney... "I was surprised at the visibility from the Kasich team," said Finley, a former plant manager for Owens Corning in Huntington, Pa., who is alarmed by the national debt and longs for a conservative candidate with executive experience... Rubio has 15 paid staffers in three field offices and the most crowded schedule among the contenders... Bush has 20 paid staffers in four field offices... Cruz has two offices... contends that hundreds of volunteers back him... Two roads exist to a GOP victory here, according to Bruce Haynes, a Washington-based media consultant... thinks those people who "watched their hometowns decay, along with the broader culture ... feel threatened and frightened, and they are more likely to look to Trump."
I can’t wait to hear !jeb suspending campaign speach!
I trust exit polls more than the vote...
speech not speach.
C'mon, this is ¿Jeb? we're talking about, here... ;-)
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