{"id":2025,"date":"2012-01-21T11:19:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T16:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2012-01-21T11:20:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T16:20:27","slug":"washington-post-picks-beaufort-county-just-across-savannah-river-as-most-important-to-watch-in-todays-s-c-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/01\/21\/washington-post-picks-beaufort-county-just-across-savannah-river-as-most-important-to-watch-in-todays-s-c-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post picks Beaufort County, just across Savannah River, as most important to watch in today&#8217;s S.C. vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Washington Post on the importance of watching the vote in Beaufort County in today&#8217;s Republican presidential primary: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Beaufort County<\/p>\n<p>This was Romney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best county \u00e2\u20ac\u201c by far \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in 2008, when he took 26 percent of the vote in this southeastern coastal area. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also the most moderate-friendly county, having given nearly three-quarters of the vote to the trio of Romney, John McCain and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.<\/p>\n<p>The ninth-biggest county in the 2008 results, it has grown even more since then as northern retirees continue to move south. Romney should do very well here, and if he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bad sign.<\/p>\n<p>One caveat, though, is that Rick Santorum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brother is from here, and Romney hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t visited much (see our visit tracker here), so the former Pennsylvania senator could steal votes and play spoiler.<\/p>\n<p>2008 results: McCain 42, Romney 26, Mike Huckabee 16, Fred Thompson 8, Giuliani 6, Ron Paul 2<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/post\/south-carolina-primary-5-counties-to-watch\/2012\/01\/20\/gIQAceO8FQ_blog.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost\" target=\"_blank\"> an interesting piece<\/a> with lots of data from the 2008 vote. <\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: none; margin:4px 0 4px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Another large rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0042810896\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post on the importance of watching the vote in Beaufort County in today&#8217;s Republican presidential primary: 1. Beaufort County This was Romney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best county \u00e2\u20ac\u201c by far \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in 2008, when he took 26 percent of the vote&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/01\/21\/washington-post-picks-beaufort-county-just-across-savannah-river-as-most-important-to-watch-in-todays-s-c-vote\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-wF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}