Looking at the vote totals, two things would have to happen for Barrett to win the runoff:

1) Everyone who voted for McMaster and Bauer would have to show up for the runoff.
2) Almost all of them (over 95%) would have to vote for Barrett.

It doesn’t take someone with a math degree (with an emphasis on probability) from a Big Ten school to figure this one out (although I happen to have one), but Barrett isn’t winning a runoff.

Or to paraphrase Scott Adams, the odds of it are roughly the same as if you bet on a horse that has never won on a muddy track, and suddenly it starts pouring rain. And the horse has two broken legs. And it’s dead.

And drop out. He has absolutely no hope of winning unless he chooses a scorched-earth campaign– and even then he is likely to lose.

People need to make clear to him that if he wants a future in SC politics he needs to avoid dragging this out further so we can concentrate on winning the general election.

He’s been in the race for 18 months, essentially declaring just after being reelected to Congress in 2008. He’s worked very hard on his campaign, won Dick Cheney’s endorsement, and was thought to have finally gained momentum in the race when Palin endorsed Haley and sucked all the oxygen in the state.

When he gets a good night’s sleep, probably for the first time in a year, the reality will begin to set in. And the phone calls from movers and shakers. The establishment network will want him in, even a small chance of derailing Haley is worth the shot to them, but it won’t be their careers in question for the future. Barrett’s not so tied to the legislative establishment in Columbia, though, and at his age could still be thinking about future campaigns.

over Haley, whether openly or covertly, should be kicked out of the party. Period.

Nikki Haley has won in a landslide. Barrett should end his campaign on a high note, he beat everybody else but the next Governor, and that means he’s next in line for whatever is next. However if he insists on wasting the good people of SC’s time and money on a pointless runoff, and finishes second in a two man race, with 30-35 percet of the vote, he’s going to be remembered as a loser, a BIG loser, and also quite dumb. Doing the right thing includes doing the right thing for himself, and its definitely for him to concede, as this race is over.

If I lived in SC, I’d vote for Nikki Haley.

Those of you familiar with my views know that is saying something.

I’d basically support her on teh grounds of showing that this whore/raghead business MUST be defeated, every bit as much as radical Islamist ideologies. The old way, of the good ol boys, must be killed, buried in soft peat for three months, and recycled as firelighters.

Even if true, imagine, an adult woman having sex, my goodness, what’s the world coming to?
The people who would use this are the same people who would defend Bill Clinton. Enough normal people saw this and shrugged, or yawned.
I wonder what filth will be dredged up in the future, whatever, a good look into the degenerate minds of liberals.