The exit poll data and the very early vote tally projects that Newt Gingrich will win South Carolina with Mitt Romney coming in second, Santorum in 3rd and Ron Paul in 4th.

The vote will be close but CNN and NBC are projecting that Newt will eventually have a single digit % win in SC.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/21/newt-gingrich-win-south-carolina-primary-results_n_1220973.html#liveblog

The exit poll data and the very early vote tally projects that Newt Gingrich will win South Carolina with Mitt Romney coming in second, Santorum in 3rd and Ron Paul in 4th.

The vote will be close but CNN and NBC are projecting that Newt will eventually have a single digit % win in SC.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/21/newt-gingrich-win-south-carolina-primary-results_n_1220973.html#liveblog

Newt 40%, Mitt 28%.

So if this goes to a deadlocked convention who will be brought in from the wings to unite the party? I suspect he won't be Mormon.

It also begs the question: whether a national campaign structure can be put in place for the candidate? There is only sixty to seventy days from convention to election day.

Given the modern structure of campaigns where the individual candidate's team puts together, several months in advance, the national campaign structure with the help of the RNC/DNC, this will put the heavy lifting on the RNC to have a national campaign appartus-get out the vote structure in place.

Maybe this will be the purist test yet of whether money/ads alone can win an election?