Breaking: Final result gives Mitt Romney an 8-vote win in Iowa caucuses

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63. I spent Xmas in S.C. - Romney may have a bigger problem there

The Bain connection. The local media were all over that story. Some openly called Romney a job-destroyer, not a job creator.

When Romney headed Bain, it bought out a division of Hallmark (Cards) in S.C. that employed several thousand people. As usual for Bain, it strip-mined the company assets and fired all the employees. Their jobs went overseas.

People in SC still seemed very pissed about that, so I'm curious if it will be an even bigger issue in the primaries.

I was in Upstate South Carolina, the most isolated, conservative and religious part of the state - about 40 miles from Bob Jones University in Greenville.

Great LTTE in the local paper - the writer said he had followed the Repub candidates closely, and had decided there was only one possible candidate he wanted within 5 miles of the nuclear button: Barack Obama.