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OFFICIAL SOUTH CAROLINA PRIMARY THREAD

Posted on 01/19/2008 6:06:01 AM PST by vikingd00d

Today is the day.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 2008; fred; frednumberone; fredthompson; gofredgo; gop; nothuckabubba; notmccain; notmitt; primary; sc2008; southcarolina; thompson
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To: HonestConservative

I voted early here in Florida- you must already be a registered Dem or Rep to vote in our primary. Winner take all.


1,981 posted on 01/19/2008 5:45:58 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Romneyfor President2008

If he wins, your guy will need all the votes in the general election he can get. So why not make the smart play, do your small part, and not drive away those of us who might have to hold our noses & vote for him with sophomoric gloating?


1,982 posted on 01/19/2008 5:45:59 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Romneyfor President2008

If he wins, your guy will need all the votes in the general election he can get. So why not make the smart play, do your small part, and not drive away those of us who might have to hold our noses & vote for him with sophomoric gloating?


1,983 posted on 01/19/2008 5:46:01 PM PST by skeeter
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To: All

FRED ——> 16%


1,984 posted on 01/19/2008 5:46:05 PM PST by Fawn (FRED 2008)
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To: Romneyfor President2008

If Fred drops out, ballots that are already printed won’t be changed but votes for him won’t count. In states where ballots are not yet printed, his name will be left off.


1,985 posted on 01/19/2008 5:46:08 PM PST by Marcella
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To: commish

Yep, you’re probably right. Just disgusting. This whole process just makes me ill.


1,986 posted on 01/19/2008 5:46:28 PM PST by Shortstop7
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To: A.Hun

Thompson only has 20% in VERY conservative Spartanburg county. When Greenville county comes in, Huckabee should do VERY well. Huck is dominating the upstate. The midlands are split b/n McCain and Huck, and the Low County is pretty much McCain with the exception of very populous Berkeley county.


1,987 posted on 01/19/2008 5:46:29 PM PST by conservativeinferno (My SUV is the urban squirrel's worst predator.)
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To: Bushbacker1

Poor Hunter.

I admit I was on the Hunter bandwagon early on. But it was not to be.

God bless him.


1,988 posted on 01/19/2008 5:46:34 PM PST by JRochelle (John Thune in 2012.)
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To: HonestConservative

“Florida is winner take all, I think.’

Frankly the WTA status of FL is somewhat up in the air. I suspect at the end it will be but the WTA rules were invoked by party leadership after we got the delegate haircut.

BTW, we have early voting and where I am it has been heavy.


1,989 posted on 01/19/2008 5:46:35 PM PST by Sunnyflorida (Drill in the Gulf of Mexico/Anwar, etc and we can join OPEC!!! || Fred - "the Best Dick Cheney ever")
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To: Yaelle

It will be a good old fashion horse trade. The top two delegate holders are the best bets for the nomination, but if you have a stack of a couple of hundred delegates, you can get a position, a speech slot, or influence. You could end up Secretary of Defense, head of the RNC, or keynote speaker.

That’s why I don’t think any of the five major players will drop out. They can play a prevent defense and end up with influence at the convention, and that is without a lot of money involved.


1,990 posted on 01/19/2008 5:46:42 PM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: billmor

Not gonna happen. I expect they will still all be in come the convention (well, ok, not Hunter), and that no one wins on the first ballot - at least unless delegates start changing votes after the first count.

And then...they should rally around the nominee, Fred Dalton Thompson. Well, except for McCain or Huckaboob, because one of them will be the Demonrat VP npminee


1,991 posted on 01/19/2008 5:46:49 PM PST by womanvet (There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary, and those who don't.)
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To: BCrago66
McCain can be thought of as a Scoop Jackson Democrat, in the same category as Joe Lieberman. Maybe conservatives wouldn’t be so angry with him if he didn’t pretend to be conservative on domestic issues, which insults our intelligence.

Personally, I think a lot of McCain's domestic failings over the past 8 years can be laid at the feet of his now wanting to give the President any easy victories. Why? He never got over what the party hacks did to him in South Carolina in 2000.
1,992 posted on 01/19/2008 5:46:52 PM PST by Antoninus ("Make all the promises you have to." --Mitt Romney)
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To: BCrago66

Huckabee not doing as well as he thought he would in Greenville. He was banking on it and it’s a statistical dead heat a 46%.


1,993 posted on 01/19/2008 5:47:09 PM PST by StarFan
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To: Mamzelle
Black women are not going to give up their chance to vote for BHO-

Some black man was just on saying (he said this, I'm just paraphrasing), "Obama made a big mistake bringing up the Reagan issue. Black folk hate Reagan. Black women aren't going to vote for somebody comparing themselves to Reagan. Obama needs to leave that rhetoric in the classroom."

He said the black folk stuff. Not me.

1,994 posted on 01/19/2008 5:47:23 PM PST by exhaustedmomma (Calling illegal alien an undocumented immigrant is like calling a burglar an uninvited house guest)
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To: skeeter

nice post skeeter

as much as some of them suck

any of them are better than Hillabama

the party leaders let too damned many run.....


1,995 posted on 01/19/2008 5:47:27 PM PST by wardaddy (Hey toe sucker Dicker Morris...you schlub.....kiss my proud Dixie butt you beyatch)
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To: Antoninus
Personally, I think a lot of McCain's domestic failings over the past 8 years can be laid at the feet of his now wanting to give the President any easy victories. Why? He never got over what the party hacks did to him in South Carolina in 2000.

Make that not wanting ...
1,996 posted on 01/19/2008 5:47:54 PM PST by Antoninus ("Make all the promises you have to." --Mitt Romney)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

You’re reinforcing my point, not contradicting it. Huck took the lions share of what would have been Fred’s base of support.


1,997 posted on 01/19/2008 5:48:09 PM PST by Da Mav
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To: txrangerette

Could he maybe be the Cheney to Mitt’s Bush? I really would like to have Thompson leading this country in some way.


1,998 posted on 01/19/2008 5:48:12 PM PST by Yaelle (If Fred loses it's our loss. Not his.)
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To: Romneyfor President2008

No Fl is not an open campaign.


1,999 posted on 01/19/2008 5:48:17 PM PST by Fawn (FRED 2008)
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To: BCrago66
But I still worry a lot over who McCain would nominate to the Supreme Court.

Maybe someone like Harriet Miers?

2,000 posted on 01/19/2008 5:48:21 PM PST by MARTIAL MONK
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