• Iowa’s a fine state. New Hampshire’s… it’s an interesting place. They winnowed the field down. South Carolina picks presidents.
• Rick Perry • Trying to play to a crowd at a South Carolina restaurant (called Lizards’ Thicket, curiously). Perry has gone all-in on South Carolina — he had a staggeringly poor showing in the Iowa caucuses, placing in fifth, and barely even tried to compete in considerably more moderate New Hampshire. Instead he’s relying on a more religious, socially-conservative GOP base in South Carolina to pull his campaign out of the doldrums. How successfully he can run on social issues while still being likable to a general audience is an open question, though; arguably his most pointed “culture war” ad of the race was received about as poorly as one could conceive. Anything short of a miracle comeback on the 21st, and you can wave the Perry campaign goodbye. source

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