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Winner take all is not a literal definition.

“WINNER-TAKE-ALL type as a method of choosing delegates to that party’s National Convention; as a result, the WINNER-TAKE-ALL type has survived only in the Republican Party nominating process where it was still being used by the GOP in roughly half of the party’s primaries in 1996. However, the current form of the WINNER-TAKE-ALL primary, in most cases, allocates district and at-large delegates separately so that a presidential contender might lose the statewide vote yet still, by winning a district or few, pick up all the delegates from those districts: as a result, the WINNER-TAKE-ALL type as currently used by Republicans in most states where it is found does not necessarily allocate ALL of a state’s delegates to the statewide winner.”

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/Definitions.html#Winn

I just got home,been out all day. Excuse me while I go back out and vomit. I repeat The Devil can make men dance upon the brink of Hell, as though they were on the verge of Heaven. God have mercy on America.

You're right about South Carolina not being strictly winner take all. Also, according to http://www.thegreenpapers.com/, SC lost 23 of their 47 Republican delegates as a penalty for holding an early primary, and the current delegate count is 18 McCain and 6 Huckabee (with a possibility that the lost delegates will be restored by convention time).

I still think it will be a brokered convention. Maybe someone can convince McCain to accept the Secretary of Defense job in lieu of the Presidency.