Posts tagged with 'south_carolina_primary'

SC Dems Get Out the Vote

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, JANUARY 26 2008 12:10 PM | PERMALINK

This time last week, and reports of failed voting machines were already rolling in. But today, the only news from South Carolina is seamless voting and high turn-out. From The Sun News' PoliTick-Tock blog:

As the first ballots were cast at 7 a.m. this morning, Horry County officials reported no problems with voting machines in the South Carolina Democrat Primary.

By 8:30 a.m. officials at several polling sites around Conway and Myrtle Beach also reported no problems.

"Everything is going...

SC Primary Special Report

POSTED BY PALMETTO STATE PROGRESSIVE, JANUARY 19 2008 03:53 PM | PERMALINK

Let's talk about the Weather:
Everyone is all a twitter today with predictions that the nasty weather is going to somehow have an affect on turnout. As usual with the mainstream media, whenever there is anything but blue skies on an election day, most TV reports are focused on the cold rain in the Midlands and Lowcountry and several inches of snow expected in the Upstate.

What else are they going to talk about while people are still actually voting? This is the time of 24-hour cable news...