The SC Election Day & Results Thread

[minionofmidas]

From Twitter:

JoeNBC Joe Scarborough:
CNBC reports that early polling has Newt beating Romney by 14%.

Is he talking about ARG or PPP? Or leaked exit polling?

The exit polls never leak before 5pm anymore.  5pm is when the exit pollsters show their first wave results to the news media, and then shortly after 5 we start getting news stories like "14% of left-handed bankers supported Santorum".

Summary: We don't know what he's talking about, but we know what he's talking out of.

[minionofmidas]

High turnout in Greenville (full of crazy evangelicals) apparently, and a tornado watch in four moderate coastal counties (Richard, Barnwell, Orangeburg, Aiken).

Coastal? Lol. Plains, aye.

[minionofmidas]

I guess if we're doing a strict binary coastal vs piedmont division, they still count as coastal...

[minionofmidas]

Who'd you vote for?

[minionofmidas]

Well, for the first time in history of modern primaries, three diffrent candidates won three first contests.

Shame that this probably can't go on forever. Every state won by a different candidate would make for a wonderful map.

[minionofmidas]

Wait, so who won the last district?

Milton, according to wikipedia.

[minionofmidas]

Wait, so who won the last district?

Milton, according to wikipedia.

Who's Milton?

See Hash's signature a few posts up.

Also, Willard Mitt Romney is actually named after (along with fellow tycoon Willard Marriott) his cousin Milton 'Mitt' Romney.

[minionofmidas]

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.

"decisions early on to accept all denominations and to refuse no one regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, or criminal record" (quote wikipedia, emphasis mine)

That is indeed quite progressive for a 70s evangelical.

Though "liberal" is probably best understood in its original sense given his economic stances... at the time. Not today. He's still preaching today, you know. wikipedia again: "the first time he actually read the Bible all the way through was in prison, and it made him realize he had taken certain passages out of context — passages which he had used as "proof texts" to back up his prosperity teachings. He wrote:

    The more I studied the Bible, however, I had to admit that the prosperity message did not line up with the tenor of Scripture. My heart was crushed to think that I led so many people astray. I was appalled that I could have been so wrong, and I was deeply grateful that God had not struck me dead as a false prophet!"