Official SC Republican Primary Results Thread

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Oh boy. I do not feel good about tonight all of a sudden. My gut still tells me Huckabee will win, but the opening 1% is troubling.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Well, if McCain does win tonight, you are probably looking at the next president of the united states, especially if hillary is the democratic nominee. the republican race is over.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Well, unless something strange happens and Rudy can win Florida even with a McCain victory tonight, he is all clear for the nod. If it comes down to Romney and McCain, McCain will win easily. Good to see Huck coming back. I hope he can pull this off in the end.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

fred's speech sounded like he was dropping out, and then they lost the audio. i wish he could just cut to the chase.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Well they said ROmney's aids are saying that Giuliani is slipping in Florida. I guess it's possible he'll finish in fourth there or worse. what a waste of a candidate.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

apparently greenville hasnt started reporting yet. nor has many of the upstate.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

They are saying that the race is far from over and that a lot of the upstate that may not have been factored into the exit polls are still out. wow, i am nervous as hell. i hate rudy for his strategy.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Ok, based on what I'm seeing even a victory isn't good for McCain here.

It's clear what's happening is McCain has learned, after 8 years, how to correct every mistake he made in 2000. He's managed to turn out the suburban voters around the big cities and split the evangelicals to the point where their influence is too diluted to matter. It's a brilliant strategy . . .

But he's going to lose the nomination. Winning with these tactics won't get him into a winning position in the next set of states. Regardless of the predictions, Giuliani can make a decent showing in Florida and after that the rank and file of the Republican Party is going to be voting, most of whom are dead set against McCain. He can't pull off the same kind of micro-targeting in the rest of the country the way he did in SC for the simple reason that he hasn't spent 8 years figuring out how.

I still think the gap will close before the night is out and McCain won't get to give a victory speech till morn'. Regardless, he didn't make enough of a showing to scare the Huckabee and Romney supporters into line. He'll be finished after 20 mins on Superduper Tuesday.

i'd love for you to be right .. i really would. i have been saying this for a while, but it doesnt look like that matters anymore. unless huckabee wins, it appears as if florida will go to mccain and then he runs the table on super tuesday. i believe rudy will finish 4th in florida. he collapses on election days no matter what he is polling. he was getting double digits in NV and got 4% there. even if rudy does poll 2nd or tied for 1st in FL, i imagine he'll finish a distant fourth fighting with paul.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

They keep saying that a lot of the upstate is still out, and that is favoring huckabee. with about an 8,000 vote difference, he can still catch up and make it a close race. charleston is almost done reporting, and we are mccain's biggest base.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Come on Huckabee!!!

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

McCain's leading by 10000 votes. I think[and hope] he's got this in the bag.

It does look like it.

He's also got the nomination in the bag.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Not a bad speech by McCain tonight. He's my second choice, far behind Rudy. I still don't understand how pundits can say Giuliani still has a chance in Florida. He was tied with McCain today and McCain hasn't even begun campaigning there. I expect him to finish fourth. It's over for the GOP.