Preliminary Popular Vote Results
Newt Gingrich 210,611 (40.4%)
Mitt Romney 140,961 (27.0%)
Rick Santorum 90,637 (17.4%)
Ron Paul 69,947 (13.4%)
Other 9,072 (1.7%)
(89% of precincts reporting)
Tentative Delegate Allocation Results
South Carolina has 25 at large delegates (because they were penalized half their delegates for having an early primary under RNC rule 16). Delegates are allocated on a winner-take-all basis but are unbound if the candidate does not receive 30% of the vote.
Gingrich = 25
Saturday, January 21, 2012
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That's a fairly steep victory for Gingrich. Analysis I've heard is that a lot of the previously uncommitted vote turned heavily to him, especially after the most recent debate and how it led off.
The big question coming out of SoCar as I see it is what does Santorum do? He polled ahead of Ron Paul by a fair amount, which is probably enough to keep him in through Florida ... but he wasn't close to Romney, and was way back of Gingrich.
I'm not sure what his continued presence in the race does after this, other than hurt Gingrich and thereby help Romney, because outside of Iowa and perhaps his home state of Pennsylvania I simply don't see him with the ability to challenge. All he can do is drag down someone else, and that won't be Romney or, really, Paul.
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