The SC Election Day & Results Thread

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

So looks like we'll get an interesting primary after all.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Why did Santorum do so well in the Charlotte suburbs?

Well York County was the home of down-market televangelists Jim & Tammy Bakker, in which they built their religious Disneyland. You are probably too young to remember them. My brother and I visited that particular Disneyland about 3 months after it closed, but alas could not talk our way in for a viewing of its attractions. We commiserated with a nice black lady at the gate about just how sad it all was, that the dream had died.

York County just ain't Romney country. So with him so anemic there, that left a bigger chunk of the anti Romney for Santorum to share as a guess, and some chunk of the anti-Romney are also anti-Newt.

Uh, the Bakkers were liberals, at least Tammy. She was known as very gay-affirming and even was during their televangelist period, when gays weren't too accepted even in mainline churches (or secular circles that matter since they were basically at the time serving as an AIDS scapegoat.) Their son now pastors one of those progressive hipster churches I love so much in NYC that has the motto "Grace + Provocation + Love" and campaigned for the gay marriage passage in NY.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Well I'm not sure if he'd qualify as progressive like Tammy or his son today, I doubt he campaigned for gay marriage like them.

Incidentally the Bakkers were expelled from a local Assembly of God college, North Central University (the core of the most Republican precinct in Minneapolis, "only" 60% for Obama) because they violated the code of conduct by getting married without the university's permission. Yes that was banned back then (no longer is of course, but the current code still makes the place look comparable to prison.)

I actually know a gay man who went there for one year. He later dropped out and enrolled in a United Church of Christ seminary in South Dakota. I also read a few months ago about another guy who was outed and left there and is now in a UCC seminary...probably not an uncommon pattern.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I find this whole argument very cute just because neither candidate is going anywhere.