Thread: Gingrich takes South Carolina.

South Carolina GOP primary results – live

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7.08pm: ABC News and CBS are also calling it for Gingrich. That must be a heck of an exit poll lead.

Meanwhile, according to the embedded reporter for NBC News, the Gingrich campaign bus is stuck in traffic an hour out of Columbia, which is rather amusing.

7.04pm: BREAKING: Polls have just closed, and both Fox News and NBC News are calling South Carolina for Newt Gingrich. What that means is that Gingrich has a huge lead in the exit polls, when a TV network feels confident enough to call a result right off the bat.

CNN's exit poll puts Gingrich well in the lead, but the network is holding off a projection for the time being.

6.46pm: You may somehow have missed this awesome piece of Newt-justification by Dr Keith Ablow – "a psychiatrist and member of the Fox News Medical A-Team" – of Newt Gingrich's three marriages? It's obviously a joke but you've got to love that last line:


So, as far as I can tell, judging from the psychological data, we have only one real risk to America from his marital history if Newt Gingrich were to become president: We would need to worry that another nation, perhaps a little younger than ours, would be so taken by Mr. Gingrich that it would seduce him into marrying it and becoming its president.

Isn't that an Onion piece right there?

6.40pm: Rick Perry only left the race two days ago but it already feels like a lifetime.

Meanwhile, it's recrimination time in Texas. . .

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...y-results-live