Does SC do runoffs? Or does the candidate with the most votes go forward?
If Graham can win on a plurality, he is sitting pretty with multiple primary challengers... They will split the vote and he’ll win.
“Does SC do runoffs? Or does the candidate with the most votes go forward?”
It says right in the article:
“Though dissatisfaction with Graham among the grassroots is high, past primary challenges to incumbent establishment Republicans in other states have succeeded only when activist support has coalesced around one strong challenger. That has not happened yet in South Carolina. The best those who oppose Graham can hope for at present is to keep him under 50% in the June 2014 primary and force a runoff.
That strategy worked for Ted Cruz in the 2012 Republican primary in Texas, where his second-place finish against Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst in the May primary forced a July runoff between the two, which Cruz won handily.
The question South Carolina conservatives are asking themselves is whether one of the three announced or potential candidates—Cash, Bright, and Mace—will emerge as South Carolina’s version of Ted Cruz, or if that challenger has yet to arrive on the scene.”