Summary: Well, it is a disappointing night for all of us as Congressman Ron Paul garnered only 13% of the South Carolina Republican Primary vote. Newt Gingrich won the election with 40%, Mitt Romney was 2nd with 28%, and Rick Santorum was 3rd with 19% of the vote. Wonder what happened to the other 4 to 8% that Dr. Paul had polled with in the last week or so? Nevertheless, we are still very early in this fight, with elections to come that are much friendlier to our cause and our candidate. Dr. Paul did receive over 77,000 votes on Saturday - nearly 5x more votes than in the 2008 SC primary (16,155), and almost as many votes as the 2012 New Hampshire (56,848) and Iowa (26,036) contests combined! That is NOT a failure -Those are alot of changed minds! After all the results had been announced, Congressman Paul addressed a couple hundred local supporters and activists at his South Carolina Primary Night Party in Columbia. The Congressman touted the steady growth of our movement and reiterated his position on several issues involving government spending and the national debt, the Patriot Act and the Federal Reserve system. Video compliments of YouTube User: PBSNewsHour.
