South Carolina, Nevada Primary Thread

Matthew Sheffield
January 19th, 2008 6:47 PM
A thread and a chat for those wishing to discuss the primary news of the day.Nevada news has already come in with Clinton and Romney winning the less-contested state. South Carolina still waiting... Update 22:09. McCain wins it. Or is it just that the anti-McCain vote was divided?
 

Tobacco, Taxes Sunk McCain in 2000 S.C. Primary, Not Dirty Tricks

Ken Shepherd
January 18th, 2008 2:39 PM
One of the American mainstream media's favorite John McCain memes is that South Carolina voters rejected the Arizona Republican in 2000 because of a baseless smear campaign about McCain's personal life. That bias is so infectious it's now a global pandemic, just witness this item from the January 18 edition of the London-based Financial Times: McCain hopes to avoid repeat of 2000For John McCain,…
 

WaPo Praises Obama Gospel Gimmick, Skips McClurkin Spat

Ken Shepherd
October 29th, 2007 12:33 PM
A major presidential candidate is straddling the fence between two key constituencies: gay voters and black churchgoers who tend to frown on homosexuality. Yet when profiling Barack Obama's gospel concert campaign swing through South Carolina, Washington Post staffer Sridhar Pappu all but left that verse out of his October 29 hymn of praise, "In S.C., Obama Seeks a Spiritual Reawakening."Gay…
 

FNC: Pilot Did Not Survive Blue Angels FA-19 Crash at Beaufort SC Airs

Lynn Davidson
April 21st, 2007 4:47 PM