Mid-forties in SC? Not in this incarnation!
SC also has a very large black population (well over 30% if I remember right) which will break, at worst, 75% Democrat. That's, what, 22.5% right there? He'd only need to get around 30-35% of the white vote to make 45% total then, and between the liberals that do infest our cities here, and the remnant of the old conservative Democrats that STILL won't vote Republican because Abe Lincoln was one, I could see him doing it. No more than 45%, though.
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