Republican South Carolina Primary results thread (polls close @7pm ET)

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/election/primaries/states/sc/Rep
AP: link
state election commission: http://www.enr-scvotes.org/SC/59148/158824/en/summary.html

Also, what's up with this... I could have sworn there were several other dropped candidates on the Republican side...

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=229608.0

Yeah, there was like 14 people who were still on the ballot... did they just remove those candidates from the ballots before they were printed (no mention of doing something like this on the P2016 website)?

Since everyone just suspended their campaigns instead of fully ending them, they stay on whatever ballots they filed  to be on.

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Delegate allocation:

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http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/republicans-2016-from-south-carolina-to-the-ides-of-march/

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Record number of absentee ballots returned in SC:

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https://twitter.com/scvotes/status/701052632769699842

Good news for KING TRUMP

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

It's only a question of how long it takes for Jeb Bush to decide that he will not win this election. He did badly in a New England state (IA), a new England state (NH), a Southern state (SC) and a far-western state (NV). He has no regional strengths that he can exploit. Ben Carson has become a political joke.

Kasich has a chance if he does extremely well in regions of America in which the Republicans are better educated (the Northeast, Midwest, and Pacific Coast regions), so I really can't rule him out yet. He might get more of a crossover vote in November -- but for him, just about everything must go right.   

Jeb dropped out last night