The GOP Must Be Seeing Blue

Even deep in the “evangelical” south, the winds of change are blowing. South Carolina results are not looking good for big red.

In 2000 McCain’s second place finish got him 237,888 votes in South Carolina. This year he has just over half those number of votes with 138,812. Republican primary turnout will be way below where it was in 2000. Nearly 150,000 votes less.

	2008				2000
John	McCain	138812		George W	Bush	301050
Mike	Huckabee	125175		John	McCain	237888
	Thompson	65840		Alan	Keyes	25510
Mitt	Romney	63026		others		1256
Ron	Paul	15373				565704
Rudy	Giuliani	8575
Duncan	Hunter	1002
Tom	Tancredo	111
John	Cox	81
Hugh	Cort	55
Cap	Fendig	23
	Total	418073