The State’s Gina Smith sums it up perfectly today in a GOP primary post-mortem: “Evangelicals, women and GOP voters in three counties are proving SC politics are unpredictable.”
She’s certainly right about that.
The exit polls (as posted by the Times) in South Carolina are showing what most people weren’t expecting: Women and evangelicals in the state didn’t really seem to care about Gingrich’s marital past or Marianne Gingrich’s bomb drop. And maybe South Carolinians didn’t care about that whole lobbying/not-lobbying thing either as he had decent support among those who identify as Tea Party Republicans.
But how’d he do it? Wasn’t Romney supposed to have the state locked down? If you look back at this State piece from the heady, post-Iowa day of Jan. 6, 2012, Gingrich’s name is nowhere to be found in the article. How did Gingrich lock up the female vote in the state?
Smith tells us this:









