South Carolina Voters Make Their Choice For Republican Candidate For President

South Carolina Voters Make Their Choice For Republican... (Added: January 21, 2012)

It was a busy day at the polls in South Carolina on Saturday, as voters cast their ballots in the states Republican Primary. WJBF News Channel 6's Kait Rayner reports from Aiken on the outcome. (more)

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By: Kait Rayner | WJBF News Channel 6
Published: January 21, 2012

Aiken, SC --

Poll workers in Aiken County had just started to drop off voting machines, when several media outlets called the South Carolina Republican Primary...Newt Gingrich takes South Carolina.

"I found it amazing that the national media, you know, less than a minute after the polls [closed], called it for Newt," said Aiken Republican Party Chair Dennis Saylor.

It was a busy day at the polls. Voters across South Carolina braved the weather to pick their presidential candidate.

"Oh, I'd say the turnout was better than we expected for a rainy day. We had close to 40 percent turnout, which is not bad for a rainy day, particularly for a Saturday," said Aiken County Precinct 1 poll worker Douglas Leader.

"It takes more than a little bit of rain to scare away a Republican voter. We don't hesitate," said Saylor.

Election expert, and chair of the Political Science Department at USC Aiken, Dr. Steven Millis, says this is an interesting race for the Grand Ole Party (GOP). "This will be the first time ever that different people won Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. I don’t think anyone saw that coming," he said.

Since 1980, the person to win the South Carolina primary went on to be the Republican candidate for president, but with three candidates each winning a primary election, the race doesn’t end in South Carolina this January.

The candidates now continue on to Florida.