As PPP finds Republican voters in South Carolina, conservative may be a euphemism:
Republican primary voters in South Carolina are exceedingly conservative on a host of issues. Only 31% believe in global warming, just 34% believe in evolution, and 62% support establishing Christianity as the national religion.
Authoritarian and anti-science.
Wrong board, don't change the subject 
. By the way: Weren't you suggesting Hillary was competitive in SC?
It shows insight into a state and into a party.
By the way -- the conclusion that South Carolina might be competitive was based upon another poll (Marist). Average the Marist and PPP polls, and South Carolina will not be a 'runaway' state that goes 60-40 R for President in 2016.
Yes, but SC is NEVER a 60-40 state. And Marist polls are obviously junk polls (especially when they poll Southern states). Hillary has a bigger chance of winning Indiana and Arizona altogether than she has winning SC. SC is a state that is never called for the GOP at poll closing time but always ends up in their column.
DeMint got 61% of the vote for the US Senate in 2010. Bush got 61% of the vote for President in 1988.
I doubt that the Perfect Storm of 2008 (credit crunch, economic meltdown, and exorbitant gas prices) will hit Indiana -- and if that happens in 2016, that would hit the Democrats in states that just do not vote for Republican nominees for President. Indiana closes its polls at 7PM, which favors the farm vote over industrial workers in voting.
The last time other than 2008 in which the nominee of the Republican Party lost Indiana was 1964, when the Democrats successfully characterized the Republican nominee as a dangerous radical who would risk a nuclear war with the Soviet Union and completely dismantle the New Deal.
I know I'm late to the thread, but the only reason DeMint did that well in 2010 was because his Democratic opponent was Alvin Greene. It says a lot about how inelastic this state is that he just barely got 60% running against Greene.
