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[tomkat]

It's 0930 EST and there's nothing in the sidebar that looks like a live thread for the SC primary . . .

[tomkat]

Central PA, and thanks very much !

[Gator113]

Love it, love it, LOVE IT!!

GO NEWT GO.....

[Scoutmaster]

But I know who John Anderson is now.

You're WAY ahead of me :)

He was a Republican who entered the 1980 Presidential race late. The Republicans had a couple of candidates. You may have heard of one: Ronald Reagan (I'm just kidding).

Anderson supported a number of Jimmy Carter's positions and was waaaaaaaay to the left of Reagan. "Run as an independent!" the media said. He ran as an independent. The darling of the press and college students who couldn't articulate a single one of his positions. He was fairly successful as a third-party candidate and a media darling.

I didn't give my actual quote above.

I had two friends who were still undergrads from a southern school visiting me in Boston, where I attended a Well-Known Eastern Business School.

I was giving them a tour of Boston and when we hit Quincy Market there were cameras and lights everywhere, and a national news guy whose name escapes me (ack!). Lots of young people in styrofoam 'straw' hats with Anderson's name on the band, and Anderson t-shirts.

He actually started to interview the young lady out the of three of us about Anderson. She (now Mrs. Scoutmaster; and she says she still has an Anderson button somewhere, because I just asked her) had a southern accent and he asked her she was in Boston. She said she was visiting me (pointing at me) and that I attended a Well-Known Eastern Business School. The interviewer stepped to me, the cameras turned to me, and the interviewer asked me if I had heard John Anderson speak on the undergraduate campus the night before.

I said "John Anderson? I've never heard of him."

About a week later, there was a national special on Anderson, with a segment on how he had to battle name recognition. The evidence? The clip with me. (I caught abuse the next day, trust me.)

For the rest of the campaign, whenever any news station talked about Anderson's problem with name recognition, they pulled the clip with me. I saw myself more times on TV during that campaign than I did in a mirror.

[greyfoxx39]

This has gotta sting...awww...

“Close Jeb Bush ally tells me that no Romney endorsement is in the works.” TheFix Tweet

[aposiopetic]

After the Myrtle Beach debate Rick S even went so far as to call a tax cut (letting people keep their Social Security money instead of paying it to FedGov) an entitlement program. See the video at http://electad.com/videos/rick-santorum-post-debate-interview-with-sean-hannity-january-16-2012/ at about 4 minutes in.

[snowsislander]

More numbers from the New York Times:

Primary Results

8:32 PM ET 2:00  |  36% reporting

Candidate		Votes	Percent		Delegates
	Newt Gingrich	80,740	40.4%		15
	Mitt Romney	52,293	26.2		—
	Rick Santorum	36,113	18.1		—
	Ron Paul	26,719	13.4		—
	Others Show all	3,909	2.0		—
	Herman Cain	1,972	1.0		—
	Rick Perry	1,236	0.6		—
	Jon Huntsman	441	0.2		—
	Michele Bachmann	183	0.1		—
	Gary Johnson	77	0.0		—

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

EXCELLANT ANALYSIS!

Very thoughtful and accurate...well written,Thanks for taking the time to put it all in words, much of what I think too.

[Shelayne]

I think I agree with Governor Perry—get the GONG!

Oh, good. He’s finally done.

Newt within the half hour and Sarah is next on FOX! I am avoiding FOX except for this!

[Leep]

poor losers. Has Santorum said anything yet?

[mojitojoe]

:)

[bigbob]

Amanda, tonight we are (many of us at least) South Carolinians! Very proud of your state.

[Las Vegas Ron]

I guess RP is set to blather the rest of the night. Somebody get the hook!!

Dang, that was painful....sure glad he's finally outta there.

[EDINVA]

I’ve only voted early absentee once in my life. Ya never know what’s going to happen. I ‘get’ Perry since he only pulled out of the race this week, and same for Huntsman, but Cain? The only explanation I can think of is that military ballots are sent out well in advance of the elections.

Obviously, the Perry/Huntsman/Cain/Bachmann votes won’t affect the outcome, but I’d be disappointed if it turned out my vote was for naught.

[onyx]

I LOVE THAT!

Sarah on Faux soon - RuPaul live cut her off.

UGH.

[livius]

Oooh, yer mean!

[Windcatcher]

Pfft. P!ss on the Kos Kooks. I can’t wait to hear their whining when Obama loses in 9 months.

I donated to Santorum, but if the final winning ticket was Newt/Santorum that would be just too sweet to see the Kos Kooks’ react. I think there would be a shortage of Japanese knives for ceremonial suicide.

[BagCamAddict]

They could have also mentioned that 70+ percent of voters voted AGAINST Romney.

[Lady Lucky]

About half counted now, Gingrich 40%, Romney 26%, Santorum 18%.
Romney is a distant second. Fourteen points behind Gingrich and only eight ahead of Santorum.

[BenKenobi]

Only Richland is safe Romney now.

Charleston is now competitive, down to 5 counties.

Santorum second in York, Chester, Lancaster, Chesterfield, Spartanburg, Laurens, Pickens.

Paul second in Abbeyville.

[eyedigress]

They have been pushing that meme since 2007. Now that the “Black” man has failed miserably they have nowhere to go. They propped it up, they can watch it fall.