Now at 76% counted, courtesy of the New York Time, it appears that the split is going to end up somewhere around 41% versus 27%:
Primary Results
9:18 PM ET2:00 | 73% reporting
Candidate
Votes
Percent
Delegates
Newt Gingrich
175,706
40.6%
15
Mitt Romney
115,568
26.7
Rick Santorum
76,042
17.6
Ron Paul
58,194
13.4
Others Show all
7,522
1.7
Herman Cain
4,295
1.0
Rick Perry
1,969
0.5
Jon Huntsman
752
0.2
Michele Bachmann
352
0.1
Gary Johnson
154
0.0
Speaker Gingrich has a very impressive win in South Carolina. The GOP insiders that have been pushing Romney need to seriously rethink their positions.
2,011 posted on 01/21/2012 6:35:21 PM PST by snowsislander
(Gingrich 2012.)