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6:04 PM PT: Ron Paul is shaking his fists at cloud.
6:05 PM PT: Dear Ron Paul, you're only dangerous to the status quo if you get votes. Which you aren't. Not enough of them, anyway.
6:05 PM PT (David Nir): A few new respondents and some tweaks to the exit polls.
6:06 PM PT: CNN has Republicans in South Carolina plugged in to dial machines, to measure their reaction to the candidate speeches. So far, not a great deal of support for his fed stuff, and they HATE his "bring the troops home" schtick.
6:07 PM PT (David Nir): The revised exit polls say:
Romney 39
Paul 23
Huntsman 17
Gingrich 10
Santorum 9
6:08 PM PT: Splice in Paul's "bring them home" stuff with Perry and Gingrich's "vulture capitalism" thing, and you have quite a bit of the Democratic agenda being promoted tonight.
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6:13 PM PT: Our software architect has had enough of Ron Paul, heads for the exit. Can't blame him.
6:13 PM PT (David Nir): Good observation by Nate Silver:
With 85 of 301 precincts reporting, 52,191 voters have cast a ballot in the Republican primary so far. That projects to about 185,000 votes statewide, as compared with about 240,000 votes in the Republican primary in 2008.
The drop-off in turnout looks worse for Republicans since a higher fraction of voters - about half this year, compared to 37 percent in 2008 - are independents. That means that turnout among registered Republicans could alone be off by nearly 40 percent from 2008.
6:16 PM PT (David Nir): Romney got 75K votes coming in 2nd in 2008. He's on track for just about that number tonight... even though he is, of course, winning.
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6:21 PM PT: Did Gary Johnson ever drop out?
6:22 PM PT: Why can't Current sync audio and video? Seems kind of elementary.
6:27 PM PT (David Nir): In Nashua, Romney needs 36 to hit 32% statewide (his 2008 performance), needs 44% to hit 40% statewide (the benchmark everyone seems to be setting for him). He's getting 42 there right now, which is why he's edging close to that 40 mark overall.
6:28 PM PT: Perry has just 694 votes thus far. Why is he still in the race? And Santorum is a hair under 10 percent. If he hits that mark, he gets a delegate.
6:28 PM PT: Oh Dear God, I turned to Fox just in time to catch Sarah Palin. And her audio is also not sync'd, so it's not just Current.
6:29 PM PT: Damn, it would've been fun had she run. What could've been...
6:30 PM PT: And Palin gets shut down mid-sentence in order to ... go to Huntsman's speech. How the might have fallen...
6:30 PM PT: Huntsman is pretending that third place means something. The "whoos" from the audience didn't sound convincing.
6:31 PM PT (David Nir): Nashua is New Hampshire's second-largest town and is right on the border with Massachussetts. In other words, it's prime Romney territory, which is why he's legged out to 44%.
6:32 PM PT: Huntsman thinks Republicans want a candidate who wants people to "come together". Not your party, dude.
6:33 PM PT (Kaili Joy Gray): The liveblogging continues in the next thread.