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Mike Green will be LIVE blogging in ETV Studios Tonight…Make your vote known and please tell us why you voted the way you did and why!

We are about 1 minute out and I am here with Roxanne Walker and Brad Warthen.

Now Andy is talking with our favorite GOP Chairman from Spartanburg. This guy never ceases to amaze me if he can find a camera he will jump in front of it.

Here we go with our first report.

I am predicting it will be a McCain evening followed closely by Mike Huckabee, Thompson then Romney. If this happens McCain will get a big boost in Florida and I believe go on to be our nominee. I do not think anyone can stop him at this time. Rudy’s strategy of waiting until Florida is proving to be a fatal flaw.

On our first cut away Roxanne went right for the party is in disarry card. Just watch the next cutaway and I will get a good zing in on the Dems.

To all the Ron Paul supporters out there why don’t you put your energy to good use and take out some Rhino’s in the statehouse.

Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer is now speaking and he makes one good point that we need to have both primaries on the same day. I agree wholeheartedly this was crazy having the primaries on different days. I disagree with him that the state ran the election well. The whole point of letting the state take over the primary is that no polling places would be closed or consolidated. Then they come out about two weeks before the election and consolidate precincts. Not to mention all the problems in Myrtle Beach. Who are the election officials down there? They need to be held accountable for this mistake.

It looks like it is going to be a long night. Things are just to close to call. I get to go first on our next segment.

We just found out that Brad Warthen went to Memphis state University.

It appears that Mitt Romney is not going to get a bronze tonight but a ribbon for participation.

I am getting word the Upstate is half in and Huckabee is only leading there by 11% of the vote. This will not be enough for him to win here in South Carolina. CNN website is showing what counties are in and how much they are in. Here is the link. http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/county/#val=SCREP1

Let’s change the subject now and talk about the whole election process here. I believe South Carolina has lost some prominence in the national spotlight. This compressed election cycle hurt South Carolina and the decision of Mitt Romney to not participate here hurt us as well. Also the election was not as negative as it was in 2000. I credit the rise of the internet and blogs as to stopping this. We along with other blogs were able to expose it and put a spin on it before the main stream media reported it.

Now for some analysis of the race. It appears that Fred Thompson was the spoiler of the race for Mike Huckabee. If you look at it he cut into his leads in the Upstate region and Huckabee was never able to make it up. One could only guess what would happen if Thompson had not been in the race. We could be looking at a Huckabee victory tonight.

The question now is when will Mitt and Thompson drop out. Mitt has put so much time and effort in the state and if it continues and he finishes forth it will not be good for Mitt going into the Flordia primary. It seems the voters of South Carolina knew who Mitt was and rejected him for some reason. It might have been the over scripting of the candidate or maybe it was his lack of connection with the voters. Who knows but it will make an interesting study for some political science student.

Let me say thank you to SCETV for allowing me to give some insight into the Presidential race and thank you for listening to it. I will have some more comments tomorrow on SCHotline.com