Vote Anti Incumbent

CNN reports Sen. John McCain was the projected winner of South Carolina’s Republican primary Saturday night despite a strong showing by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee among the evangelical Christian voters who dominated the day’s turnout.

Comment: How can McCain win over someone who dominated the day’s turnout.

Exit polls found self-described evangelical Christians made up nearly 60 percent of the vote, and Huckabee — an ordained Baptist minister who emphasized his conservative Christian credentials — was the choice of 40 percent of those voters. But he took only 12 percent of the nonevangelical vote, while McCain took 40 percent and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, 21 percent

Comment: So Huckabee took only 12 percent of the nonevangelical vote.  Sounds like reverse vote against the dominating evangelicals.  They have been in power, or their man Bush has, for a long time and I think people don’t like the way things are going.

In 2004 John Edwards won this South Carolina primary.  Will he do it again in 2008?  Latest polls show Edwards in third place with Clinton second, and Barack Obama winning South Carolina primary.

On the Republican side, SC looks to put the skids on John McCain just like they did in 2004.  Latest polls show Romney in second place with Huckabee winning the South Carolin primary. The SC primary is this Sat. Jan 19, 2008.

If you want to vote in South Carolina’s Democratic primary, you’d better hit the post office today. Dec 26 is the deadline to register if you want to vote. In South Carolina, voters may vote in either the Republican or Democratic primaries, but not both.