Campaigns Scramble After Rare S.C. Snow

Thu, January 17, 2008 - 11:35 AM

GREENVILLE, S.C. -- The cold-hardy voters in Iowa and New Hamsphire are probably snickering at South Carolina today.

A half-inch of snow in upstate South Carolina overnight forced campaigns to scramble their campaign schedules. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, for example, had to cancel an event at a technical high school in Greenville because the school was closed today by the snow.

Candidates routinely struggled through feet of snow in the New Hampshire and Iowa to meet with voters. But in South Carolina, it’s a rare event. And to Northerners, the degree to which Southerners freak out about a tiny amount of snow is amusing.

In New England, I’m not sure what fell here overnight actually qualifies as snow. And this morning, it’s quickly turned to rain.

--Sean Mussenden