McCain’s SC Win Could Get Bigger
HORRY COUNTY STILL HASN’T REPORTED ITS PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY RESULTS
FITSNews – January 20, 2008 – Sen. John McCain’s three-point margin of victory in South Carolina over former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee could get bigger by the time all the votes are counted. That’s because most – if not all – of the 6% of precincts currently unaccounted for in the balloting are located in Horry County, part of the more moderate coastal region of the state that went heavily for McCain eight years ago.
Horry County precincts experienced severe problems during yesterday’s GOP primary, with 80-90% of its electronic voting machines malfunctioning due to an “operator error.” McCain’s campaign actually considered protesting the results of the statewide primary over the issue, but dropped the idea shortly before polls closed across the state yesterday at 7:00 PM.
McCain supporter Tracy Edge, a State Representative from Horry County, told The (Myrtle Beach) Sun News yesterday that Horry County elections official Sandy Martin should be fired.
“I guess I’m just stunned because the crew in that office only has to do the job twice a year and they can’t get it done,” Edge told the paper. “I want her fired, I’m tired of it.”
Comments
By roofus on January 20th, 2008 at 8:08 am
word on the street…Thompson is rumored to have cut a deal with McCain and will stay on just to bleed votes from Romney and Huckabee in exchange for the McCain’s V.P. slot…
By fitsnews on January 20th, 2008 at 8:52 am
“Roofus,”
That’s actually a very interesting comment – and an even more interesting theory.
It certainly would make sense.
We also neglected to mention that hands-down the most awkward moment of election night in SC last night was Fred Thompson’s “important announcement …” of nothing.
-FITSNews
By Earl on January 20th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Roof, it may well be that Thompson is hoping to accomplish that, so as to help McCain. But at the rate he’s going, the only one who seems to be bleeding votes is Thompson himself.
By Greta on January 20th, 2008 at 10:27 am
That was precisely my thoughts after watching the debates in Myrtle Beach. I’m not sure if the deal includes the VP slot, however I did think Thompson’s attack of Huckabee would benefit McCain.
By Silence Dogood on January 20th, 2008 at 11:54 am
FITS, Roofus,
You mentioned in the previous post about how Thompson was vying for the same votes Romney WAS going for, do you really think this is the case, note N.H. for instance where Thompson got like 1% or similar in Michigan. I don’t think the Fred Thompson style traditional southern conservative is likely to be thinking “Fred or Mitt?”
Given though, the McCain team will need all the help he can get now as most of the right-talk radio hosts I listen (Beck, Rush and one or two others) have gone into this “I don’t support anyone person in the Republican primary, but allow me to spend the rest of my show bashing McCain, Huckabee, even Thompson, Paul, and Rudy) which techinically is not and endorsement or anybody, but one would be a fool not to see it as an endorsement of Romney – well or Duncan Hunter if you must. However, SC win will give McCain a lot of steam.
By Silence Dogood on January 20th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
P.S., and I don’t think Huckabee and Romney were competing for the same votes either, most Baptist/Born Again/ or Fundamentalist Christian voters were not thinking “Huckabee (Baptist Preacher) or Mitt (Evil Scarey ‘other religion’)?” nor were any of the populists who chose Huckabee for his wacky untenable economic theories thinking…”Hmmm, Mitt is for helping empower corporations over the individual hourly wage earner because corps. have been at such a disavantage for so long and need those tax cuts to send their sub corps to college, where do I sign up?”
By Mincing Words on January 20th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
I can tell you, for me, it came down to Huck or Thompson, and I went with Thompson because the thought of another gov’nur from Arkansas (a Baptist, no less) was a scary thought….
Seriously, I didn’t go with McCain because he isn’t really a conservative. Which makes him all the more likely to get the nomination…
By Mr. Business on January 20th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Probably the scariest thing I heard from the talking heads on Fox was that many in SC were voting for McCain because it was his turn. What kind of thinking is that?
I voted for Senor McCain in 2000 but his immigration plan (I did like the fact that his tried something) fallout where he went on the kill the messenger tirade along with his hypocritical ‘we are a nation of laws’ lambasting of the handling of terrorists while advocating amnesty for law breakers, gang of 14 involvement, and admitted ignorance on the economy, meant that I had to look elsewhere.
I voted for Romney but could have voted for anyone.
By Romney Revolution on January 21st, 2008 at 9:39 am
FLASH. Romney up five in Florida. Eat that McCainiacs.
By Silence Dogood on January 22nd, 2008 at 2:59 pm
And…Thompson is out…and I think it probably helps McCain or Huckabee the most, the conspiracy theory that he was going to stay in to help McCain against Romney just didn’t seem to add up since Romney and him aren’t competing for the same votes as much as he and McCain (and maybe Huckabee) would have been.
By Romney Revolution on January 23rd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
#10, how do you explain the last TWO polls showing Romney up in Florida? This is the worst example of media bias, both on the left and right. Romney has CLEARLY surged in Florida yet no one is reporting on it.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/florida-primary.html