SOUTH CAROLINA

The Role of Polls and Campaign in South Carolina



The Role of Polls and Campaign in South Carolina

Introduction

The presidential primary in South Carolina opens the Republican balloting in the South, extending a tradition that dates to 1980 in the heart of the nation's most Republican-friendly region (Genovese & Streb, 2010). Since, the party's primary began there that year, every candidate who has won it has gone on to be the party's presidential nominee.

Discussion

South Carolina is a former Democrat bastion, more exactly a bastion of "southern democrats" or Dixiecrats. In 1880, when former Confederates regained comprehensive control of local institutions ...