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South Carolina Republican Primary

Saturday, January 19 | Delegates at Stake: 24*

Polling Data
PollDateMcCainHuckabeeRomneyThompsonPaulGiulianiSpread
Final Results-33.229.915.115.73.72.1McCain +3.3
RCP Average01/14 - 01/1826.925.914.714.64.43.4McCain +1.0
American Res. Group01/17 - 01/18263392123Huckabee +7.0
Reuters/CSpan/Zogby01/17 - 01/182726161243McCain +1.0
InsiderAdvantage01/17 - 01/172626131355Tie
FOX News01/16 - 01/172720151143McCain +7.0
SurveyUSA01/16 - 01/173127171652McCain +4.0
Rasmussen01/16 - 01/162424181653Tie
Mason-Dixon01/14 - 01/162725151365McCain +2.0
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Recent Commentary & News Stories
- McCain, South Carolina Find Common Ground - John O'Connor, The State
- Battle for Nevada: Ethnic Tensions Could Haunt Dems - Joan Walsh, Salon
- McCain Looks Strong in Fractured Field - Rich Lowry, New York Post
- Florida Becomes GOP Showdown State - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
- How Clinton and McCain Won - Jay Cost, RealClearPolitics
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Polling Data
PollDateMcCainHuckabeeRomneyThompsonPaulGiulianiSpread
RCP Average01/14 - 01/1826.925.914.714.64.43.4McCain +1.0
American Res. Group01/17 - 01/18263392123Huckabee +7.0
Reuters/CSpan/Zogby01/17 - 01/182726161243McCain +1.0
InsiderAdvantage01/17 - 01/172626131355Tie
FOX News01/16 - 01/172720151143McCain +7.0
SurveyUSA01/16 - 01/173127171652McCain +4.0
Reuters/CSpan/Zogby01/15 - 01/172922151342McCain +7.0
Rasmussen01/16 - 01/162424181653Tie
SurveyUSA01/16 - 01/162926171753McCain +3.0
American Res. Group01/15 - 01/163323201314McCain +10.0
Reuters/CSpan/Zogby01/14 - 01/162922121455McCain +7.0
Mason-Dixon01/14 - 01/162725151365McCain +2.0
Reuters/CSpan/Zogby01/13 - 01/152923131265McCain +6.0
Clemson01/09 - 01/152922131063McCain +7.0
Rasmussen01/13 - 01/132819171655McCain +9.0
Rasmussen01/09 - 01/092724161256McCain +3.0
FOX News01/09 - 01/09251817955McCain +7.0
InsiderAdvantage01/07 - 01/07213314558Huckabee +12.0
Rasmussen01/06 - 01/0621281511410Huckabee +7.0
SurveyUSA01/04 - 01/061736191159Huckabee +17.0
SurveyUSA12/17 - 12/1816281815--12Huckabee +10.0
CBS News12/13 - 12/1711282010312Huckabee +8.0
Rasmussen12/16 - 12/1612232312511Tie
CNN12/09 - 12/12132416171116Huckabee +7.0
SurveyUSA12/07 - 12/0910301918--13Huckabee +11.0
Mason-Dixon12/03 - 12/0610201514417Huckabee +3.0
Rasmussen12/03 - 12/049251818412Huckabee +7.0
Insider Advantage12/03 - 12/0410231417617Huckabee +6.0
American Res. Group11/26 - 11/2910182113323Giuliani +2.0
Clemson11/14 - 11/271113171569Romney +2.0
AP-Pew11/07 - 11/2513101918619Tie
Rasmussen11/20 - 11/209122121813Tie
SurveyUSA11/09 - 11/1114122018--26Giuliani +6.0
ARG10/26 - 10/291352910423Romney +6.0
Ayres McHenry (R)10/24 - 10/291782013319Romney +1.0
Winthrop Univ.10/07 - 10/28951718217Thompson +1.0
Insider Advantage10/02 - 10/0216111621316Thompson +5.0
American Res. Group09/26 - 09/291512610223Romney +3.0
Rasmussen09/26 - 09/271131524220Thompson +4.0
LA Times/Bloomberg09/06 - 09/10156926223Thompson +3.0
American Res. Group08/26 - 08/29129921226Giuliani +5.0
Clemson08/20 - 08/291561119118Thompson +1.0
Rasmussen08/20 - 08/201461023--21Thompson +2.0
American Res. Group07/26 - 07/30103727328Giuliani +1.0
CNN07/16 - 07/18203417228Giuliani +8.0
American Res. Group06/26 - 06/30233819--22McCain +1.0
Mason-Dixon06/13 - 06/15751125--21Thompson +4.0
Winthrop Univ.05/16 - 05/27141126--19Giuliani +5.0
American Res. Group05/23 - 05/263211013--23McCain +9.0
Insider Advantage05/21 - 05/2217--813--18Giuliani +1.0
Insider Advantage05/08 - 05/099--108--22Giuliani +12.0
Ayres McHenry (R)05/05 - 05/08252816120McCain +5.0
American Res. Group04/27 - 04/30362610--23McCain +13.0
Ayres McHenry (R)04/14 - 04/1924--1011--15McCain +9.0
Zogby04/16 - 04/172221011119McCain +3.0
FOX News04/01 - 04/03252142126Giuliani +1.0
American Res. Group02/23 - 02/273515----29McCain +6.0
Ayres McHenry01/24 - 01/282926----20McCain +9.0
American Res. Group12/21 - 12/233515----28McCain +7.0
All Commentary & News Stories
- McCain, South Carolina Find Common Ground - John O'Connor, The State
- Battle for Nevada: Ethnic Tensions Could Haunt Dems - Joan Walsh, Salon
- McCain Looks Strong in Fractured Field - Rich Lowry, New York Post
- Florida Becomes GOP Showdown State - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
- How Clinton and McCain Won - Jay Cost, RealClearPolitics
- Obama Needs to Add More Substance - Peter Canellos, Boston Globe
- Waiting for Straight Talk from McCain - George Will, Washington Post
- Are Blacks Bailing on the Clintons? - Dick Polman, Philadelphia Inquirer
- Clinton is in the Driver's Seat - Reid Wilson, Politics Nation
- Conservative Populism - Yuval Levin & Ramesh Ponnuru, Weekly Standard
- The Party's Over for Dispirited GOP - Evan Thomas, Newsweek
- Democrats Could Blow It Again - Paul Starr, Washington Post
- The Growing Aversion to Abortion - Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune
- Increasingly Stale Rhetoric on Iraq - Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek
- Critiquing the Candidates for President - San Diego Union-Tribune
- McCain Wins in Tight South Carolina Vote - David Jackson, USA Today
- Clinton Win in Nevada Ends on Ugly Note - John Dickerson, Slate
- Mormons, Party Regulars Fuel Romney in NV - Jon Cohen, Washington Post
- Evangelical Republicans Drive S.C. Primary - Gary Langer, ABC News
- Obama's Age Gap: Is It Race? - Dick Meyer, CBS News
- Fierce Spending in Early Stages Saps Campaigns - David Kirkpatrick, NYT
- Breaking Down the Black Vote - John Cloud, Time
- New Hampshire Voters Aren't Racist - Andrew Cline, Washington Post
- Obama Faces White Resistance In South - Tom Edsall, Huffington Post
- What Happened to the Culinary Workers Union? - Jim Geraghty, NRO
- Romney Alters His Message, but Questions Remain - Michael Luo, New York Times
- For Fred, the Campaign That Could Have Been - Byron York, NRO
- Enough With the Reagan Nostalgia - William Kristol, Weekly Standard
- A GOP Primary In Which Every End is Loose - Mike Littwin, Rcky Mtn News
- Obama's Message Has Roots in Founders - Joseph Ellis, Los Angeles Times
- Bipartisan Bunk: Obama's Real Fairy Tale - Jonah Goldberg, New York Post
- Can Clinton or Obama Pull the Party Together? - Eleanor Clift, Newsweek
- Mostly Decent Politics - Michael Barone, RealClearPolitics
- How the White House May Be Won - in the West - David Horsey, Seattle PI
- John McCain: Not Perfect, But Electable - Wynton Hall, NRO
- Edwards's Populist Roll of the Dice - Derrick Jackson, Boston Globe
- Close Contest Could Make Edwards Kingmaker - Ben Smith, The Politico
- Democrats Struggle With Wages of Sensitivity - Noemie Emery, Wkly Std
- Will Super Delegates Sink the Dems? - Joshua Spivak, Los Angeles Times
- Obama & The Gipper - Wall Street Journal
- The Post-Ironic Campaign - Terence Samuel, The American Prospect
- Bill Clinton Shadowed by Past Battles - Peter Baker, Washington Post
- There's Something About McCain - Dean Barnett, Weekly Standard
- How Mad Are the Republicans? - Gerard Baker, Times of London
- Democrats Target Obama - Reid Wilson, Politics Nation
- GOP Contest Reveals Weakness - Ronald Brownstein, National Journal
- Blindsided by National Security? - Ed Morrissey, Captain's Quarters
- What They Call 'Progress' in Iraq - Joe Conason, New York Observer
- Culling the Republican Herd - Jennifer Rubin, Human Events
- McCain is Barry Goldwater, in Reverse - Wynton Hall, NRO
- Is Chuck Hurting Huck? - Andrew Romano, Newsweek
- Fred Needs a Win - Roger Simon, The Politico
- Hillary's Proposal to Wreck the Housing Market - Jon Birger, Fortune
- Edwards's Reality Altering Ads - John Nichols, The Nation
- How Much Does Edwards Really Love Obama? - Jay Newton-Small, Time
- The Problem with Internet Pundits - Steven Stark, Boston Phoenix
- The Perils of Identity Politics - Christopher Hitchens, Wall Street Journal
- Black Dreams, White Liberals - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
- Finding the Right Message Down South - Michael Scherer, Time
- Why Obama Needs Nevada - Steve Kornacki, New York Observer
- Can Romney Catch On? - Jay Cost, HorseRaceBlog
- Why Huckabee Won't Break Out - Rich Lowry, New York Post
- Conservatives Shouldn't Swing at McCain - John Kass, Chicago Tribune
- Dems Can't Ignore White Working Class - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
- Thompson: The Anti-Soundbite Candidate - Rick Moran, American Thinker
- The Obama Paradigm - G. Terry Madonna & Michael Young, RealClearPolitics
- Trying to Explain How Voters Think - David Brooks, New York Times
- Edwards Message: Louder This Time - Marshall Allen, Las Vegas Sun
- Who's The Most Electable Democrat? - Carl Leubsdorf, Dallas Morning News
- Terror Issues Dominate GOP '08 Playbook - Thomas Edsall, Huffington Post
- Union Squabbling - Las Vegas Review-Journal
- Clinton the Right Choice - Las Vegas Sun
- McCain No Longer a Maverick in S.C. - David Paul Kuhn, The Politico
- GOP Race May Come Down to Florida - Dan Balz, Washington Post
- Can John McCain Mend Fences? - David Freddoso, National Review Online
- Huckabee Goes National on a Shoestring - Laura Meckler, Wall St. Journal
- Obama: The Visionary Minimalist - Cass Sunstein, The New Republic
- Clinton/Obama or Obama/Clinton? - Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe
- Why I Like Fred Thompson - Alicia Colon Commentary
- The Hypocrisy of Suppressing the Vote in Nevada - John Fund, WSJ
- GOP Funk Slows Turnout, Money - J. VandeHei & J. Harris, The Politico
- Will Dems Ever Acknowledge Progress in Iraq? - Mort Kondracke, Roll Call
- Democrats Winning the Debate on Taxes & Economy - Democracy Corps
- Romney And Electability - Ed Morrissey, Captain's Quarters
- In Nevada All Bets Are Off - Sasha Abramsky, Mother Jones
- Clinton Pulls Race Card, Obama May Fold - Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg
- Misstep in a Liberal Minefield - George Will, Washington Post
- Old Warrior, Go Home - Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
- In Michigan, Mitt Finally Sold the Real Romney - Byron York, USA Today
- Will Romney 3.0 Work Outside of Michigan? - Duffy & Tumulty, Time
- South Carolina is Thompson's Turn - Quin Hillyer, The American Spectator
- The Use and Abuse of Reagan - Victor Davis Hanson, RealClearPolitics
- Class, Not Race, Divides the Democrats - Marie Cocco, Newsday
- A Democratic Field Without an Executive - David Broder, Washington Post
- Clinton's 'Vetting' Attack - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
- Can Giuliani Get Into the Game in Florida? - Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call
- Notes on the GOP Race - John Ellis, RealClearPolitics
- Democrats Go Upscale in '08 - Ronald Brownstein, National Journal
- Republicans' 2008 Senate Prospects Look Dismal - Washington Times
- GOP Adrift, Deeply Divided & Uninspired - Adam Nagourney, NY Times