Not sure on the absentee laws, but I did hear that Stephen Colbert was asking viewers to vote for Cain as a proxy for him on the ballot. Could be part of it. Definitely the absentee voting wouldn't be early enough for Cain votes to have been in before he dropped out though.

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"Plan your work, work your plan."

Anybody know why the results are looking weird right now...

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"I've always believed the mission is greater than the man..." -Governor Rick Perry
"We're not choosing a pastor-in-chief, we're choosing a commander-in-chief." -Pastor Michael Youssef

Yep, I was just about to post that. Cain and Colbert even did a joint event together in South Carolina recently. I don't think Cain realized the joke was on him.

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I suppose they are tired of always having to look for the "silver" lining.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

This makes me smile.

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Part of it is not understanding how they win every internet poll by double digits and then struggle to finish in the double digits in the polls that matter. Huge disparity of expectations.

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"Plan your work, work your plan."

Statistics. They should settle out with the exit polls projections. Exits can be off badly (6% or more). We'll see but if I was a Newt supporter I'd be confident.

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"As for us, our days of combat are over. Our swords are rust. Our guns will thunder no more. The vultures that once wheeled over our heads must be buried with their prey. Whatever of glory must be won in the council or the closet, never again in the field. I do not repine. We have shared the incommunicable experience of war; we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The early results might be absentee votes that were pre-counted. That would explain a lot.

Now the actual votes are starting to reflect the projections.

Watching Romney spin this result should be amusing...............spinning is one of his strengths.

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It looks like Santorum will probably come in 3rd and not 4th. Good for him. He'll probably stay in through Florida.

Had to change the channel, just can't stomach to hear mutterings of Mittens.

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Speaking as a Santorum supporter, I still find this comment kind of humorous considering that there are only 4 candidates left in the race. At least he did better than Cain! Haha. In all seriousness, I do appreciate your trying to cheer up us Santorum supporters on a night that is clearly not going our way. I just watched an interview on CNN with Santorum, though, in which he seemed pretty committed to going forward from here through Florida and beyond. One of CNN's pundits (Ari Fleischer?), made the point that he has reason to stay in, given Newt's propensity to be his own undoing.

So, yes, feeling a bit discouraged tonight, but still feeling confident in my choice and hopeful for the future!

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I agree.

Looking at the numbers now, he's doing better than recent polls suggested he would. So that's the optimistic take.

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THE TIMES are nightfall, look, their light grows less;
The times are winter, watch, a world undone:
They waste, they wither worse; they as they run
Or bring more or more blazon man’s distress.
And I not help. Nor word now of success:
All is from wreck, here, there, to rescue one—
Work which to see scarce so much as begun
Makes welcome death, does dear forgetfulness.
Or what is else? There is your world within.
There rid the dragons, root out there the sin.
Your will is law in that small commonweal…
G.M. Hopkins.

What the (a word that is not a curse which would violate posting rules at HA sincerely the moderator) is Mitt talking about? He's talking as if he's won the state. He must have had that speech prepared long time ago and didn't want it to go to waste or something...

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"We're not choosing a pastor-in-chief, we're choosing a commander-in-chief." -Pastor Michael Youssef

He does use a teleprompter doesn't he?

I suppose they forgot that he might lose.

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"If there was hope, it must lie in the proles..." George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

Dang, Fox News showing Newt's opened up a 14 pt. advantage over Mitt w/ 21% reporting. Mitt is getting "boat-raced" tonight (favorite term of Gamecock head baseball coach Ray Tanner for all non-Gamecocks out there).

EDIT: Now showing 15 pt. lead for Newt over Mitt w/ 24% of the vote in.

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Oh man, why is Huckabee giving Romney coaching tips...

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"I've always believed the mission is greater than the man..." -Governor Rick Perry
"We're not choosing a pastor-in-chief, we're choosing a commander-in-chief." -Pastor Michael Youssef

When you're the inevitable one like Mittens, losing just is not acceptable!

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Most people believe what they see, the Left see's what it believes.....

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Most people believe what they see, the Left see's what it believes.....