South Carolina
Posted at 10:37am on Jun. 17, 2008 RedState Radio: Senator Jim DeMint and the Senate Conservatives Fund
By Erick
This week I turned over the RedState podcast microphone to my good friend Andy Roth at the Club for Growth.
Andy interviewed Senator Jim DeMint about the Senator's new Senate Conservatives Fund. The SCF if dedicated to electing real conservatives to the United States Senate.
Both Andy and Senator DeMint are good friends of RedState and Senator DeMint has waged a good, hard fight for conservatives in the United States Senate. We should all support this effort.
Senator DeMint tells Andy what it's all about in the podcast.
or listen here:
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Posted at 10:07pm on Jan. 21, 2008 Re: Dems SC debate
By Ben Domenech
In addition to Kevin's commentary, check out Vodkapundit, who is en fuego:
6:54pm The question to special guest John Edwards is, “Is your health plan dreamily socialist enough to cover illegal immigrants?” “No… even I’m not that big a fool on an issue like that!”
6:55pm Special guest John Edwards is at least honest. He talks about “mandates” on “everybody.” Remember those two words. They mean: Washington tells you what to do, and there is no out, at all, forever.
6:57pm “Everybody will be forced to buy health insurance.” That’s Obama, expanding on what special guest John Edwards just said.
6:58pm I need to make another martini. Another very freaking large martini.
7:01pm Let’s be honest about something here. The biggest reason to mandate health insurance is to force young, healthy people (millions of whom neither want nor need insurance) to pay in, thus lowering rates (and thus transferring wealth) to millions of old people who have a lot more money than young people. But old people also vote a lot more than young people. And by and large they vote for Democrats.
7:04pm The question is to Clinton, and it’s basically, “So Iraq doesn’t entirely suck anymore. Are you looking to end this war or win it?” And Clinton straight up tells the enemy she wants out “in 60 days” and that “there is no military solution.” And she’s the hawk in this limp-wristed field.
Posted at 8:19pm on Jan. 19, 2008 SC Open Thread Part II
Since we're nearing 200 comments on the first one
By Ben Domenech
Official results will be here. Map will be here. Exit polls are here.
I still want to be Michael Barone when I grow up.
Rock em sock em.
[UPDATE]: Still too close to call - McCain 33% to Huckabee 30% with 60% reporting. That said, knowing SC a bit from when I grew up there, Huckabee is underperforming in a few key areas, and I predict a narrow McCain win.
Something interesting from the exit polling of age differences: Huckabee wins 18-29 and 30-44 by a 5 percent and 11 point margin respectively. But a full 35% of the vote was from 60+ voters - who went for McCain at a 41% pace, a 17 point margin over Huckabee. Assuming McCain wins, it's going to be with the older moderate voters who did it. I'd love to see crosstabs on this.
Oh, and a big thanks to Martha MacCallum for the kind FNC mention. :)
[UPDATE]: I think this one's Johnny Mac's (and right after I typed this, the AP and FNC called it). Huckabee may close it up a bit more (it's about a 14k margin at the moment), but this one's basically going to end up where Mason-Dixon put it a week ago. On to Florida!
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Posted at 12:27pm on Jan. 19, 2008 Guaranteed to be Competely Inaccurate: Anecdotes from SC
By Ben Domenech
I grew up in Charleston, which is mostly a base of McCain support in SC, but yesterday I sent out an email to about 20 people who I knew in the state - a mixture of old and young friends.
The result: at the end of the day I've got 15 votes for Huckabee, 2 for McCain, 1 for Thompson ... and 1 for Ron Paul.
This result is guaranteed to be completely inaccurate. But I was surprised that 1) Huckabee's support was not exclusive to Evangelicals, from middle-aged Episcopalians to young Catholics; 2) the rationale behind the decision was in several cases "I don't want McCain to win"; and 3) every single person - EVERY single one of them - expects McCain to win the state, and to be the nominee.
Just for what it's worth.
Posted at 4:13pm on Jan. 11, 2008 Romney in Seven Words
By Mark I
On Wednesday, after his loss in the New Hampshire primary, Gov. Mitt Romney returned to Boston to lick his wounds and conduct a telephone fundraiser before heading off to his next must win state of Michigan. ABC Radio microphones were there and they featured an audio quote from Romney in their top of the hour news broadcasts. Romney was encouraging his phone bank volunteers with a little pep talk when he unintentionally summed up his entire campaign; ironically hitting upon the reason why he has failed to gain any traction with conservatives despite spending the most money of any Republican. ABC News Radio was contacted by telephone and confirmed the following quote from their report.
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Posted at 8:39am on Jan. 11, 2008 MI Morning Update: Republicans Debate in South Carolina - House Republicans Call for Surplus to Return To Taxpayers
By saul anuzis
300 Days until Election Day
MORNING UPDATE:
The Republican Presidential debate in South Carolina went over well without any new surprises. Our candidates addressed the issues of the day, drew several contrasts and showed why Republicans are in great shape going into the 2008 presidential elections.
In advance of expected calls at today's state of Michigan’s revenue estimating conference to spend "surplus" funds on more band-aid fixes to Michigan's budget, House Republicans today called for the surplus to be returned to taxpayers instead and for House leadership to make reforming government spending the priority of 2008. Oh, ohh…now what Governor???
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Posted at 3:17pm on Dec. 5, 2007 Hillary enlists the aid of fake Ministers to sell campaign to SC blacks.
She might have pulled guys off the street and called them ministers for SC campaign event
By Mark Kilmer
Now and again, it does us a world of good to check in on Ms. Inevitable, the next President of the United States, Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton Machine. (Sarcasm is a fine thing.)
Last week, Ms Inevitable Hillary was in Spartanburg, South Carolina, to receive the endorsements of some eighty black ministers, according to the candidate and her peeps..
"This is just the beginning," said state Sen. Darrell Jackson, a Columbia minister working for Clinton. Similar announcements are in the works in other regions of the state, he said.
Folks, we're dealing with Hillary, here. The whole thing was a lie bit of campaign exaggeration. The AP is checking it out.
Read On…
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Posted at 11:45am on Oct. 23, 2007 Colbert Beats Richardson
By California Yankee
Stephen Colbert has announced plans to run in both the Democratic and Republican South Carolina Presidential primaries.
A new Public Opinion Strategies poll finds Presidential wannabe, Stephen Colbert, takes 2.3 percent of the vote. That's better than Democratic candidates Governor Bill Richardson (2.1 percent), Representative Dennis Kucinich (2.1 percent) and former Senator Mike Gravel (less than 1 percent).
