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Laugh all you want. Mitt Romney fell to second place over the weekend, and Mike Huckster is now in first place in South Carolina.
No one is accurately tracking the Ron Paul votes, because all the polls either eliminate Ron Paul, or rely on the regular Republican primary voters (like me). No one is taking into account the cross-over "Southern Democrat" votes, that are generally Conservative, but who refuse to vote for the party of Lincoln.
The Romney campaign is doing "damage control" in South Carolina, and the South, because they know that "we won't vote for folks who insult us".
Take it for what you want. I host an AM Radio Talk Show in Columbia, and Mitt Romney has committed "political suicide" in the South. The revulsion toward Fred Thompson is almost worse, because my listeners considered him a "fellow Southerner".
Laugh all you want, but the votes tell all. Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul have been the beneficiaries of Mitt Romney's bigotry and Fred Thompson's betrayal.
FSI
Larry Salley