Snow and Live Blogging from Huckabee HQ

Sat, January 19, 2008 - 8:55 PM

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Polls are closing in a few minutes in South Carolina, ending a cold, snowy and generally unseasonably miserable day of voting here in the GOP primary.

I’m live blogging the returns tonight from Gov. Mike Huckabee’s election night party in Columbia, S.C. A few minutes ago, I ran into Mike Campbell, whose dad Carroll Campbell was governor here from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Campbell has been around South Carolina politics all his life, and he told me he could not remember a time when it snowed on election day.

That’s New Hampshire’s thing, right? Unclear is exactly what impact it had on turnout.

It snowed heaviest today in upstate South Carolina, which is more conservative than other parts of the state, and thus, a strong area for Huckabee. It didn’t snow along the coast, where Sen. John
McCain was expected to do better with moderates and independents.

Turnout reports were relatively strong despite the snow. We’ll find out in a little bit who won this thing.

If you’re reading this blog tonight instead of, you know, actually going out and having fun, feel free to drop me a comment or question. I can answer this one already: No, Chuck Norris is not here.

--Sean Mussenden