As if the South Carolina primary wasn’t mixed up enough, a big snow storm, rain, and voting problems are adding even more confusion.
“We have received reports from Horry County that voters are being turned away from the polls, because electronic voting machines are not working and paper ballots are not available,” Buzz Jacobs, McCain’s South Carolina state director, said in a statement. “Some voters say they are being instructed to return at a later time. We are disturbed by these reports and hope that this issue is resolved immediately. We encourage any voters who were turned away from the polls to return again to their polling place this afternoon to exercise their constitutional right to vote.”
With weather slowing down travel and supressing turn-out among some older and disabled voters (potentially including the state’s huge veteran’s population) the McCain campaign sounds like they feel the results are out of their hands. In fact, Senator McCain decided to go check out a movie to pass some time in the afternoon. The Senator and his wife went to see “There Will Be Blood,” a historical epic set in California’s oil-boom days of the early 20th century.
According to the Associated Press, McCain had visited some key precincts early in the morning and then vivisted a defense manufacturer in the state…
Earlier, McCain toured Force Protection Industries, which makes an assortment of heavily armored equipment for the Defense Department.
Speaking to employees through a megaphone, McCain told them the vehicles they manufacture make U.S. troops “much more capable of defeating an implacable enemy. … You’re the best of America, thank you.”
Cindy McCain climbed into the driver’s seat of one of the trucks. “Take it up to 90,” McCain told her.
The weather could have some negatives for Mike Huckabee, as rural voters might be more likely to support the Southern Governor. But evangelicals are highly motivated to come out and the conventional wisdom is that snow is good for Huckabee.
We’ll just have to wait and see.
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