From Deseret News archives:
Nothin' could be fina for McCain in Carolina
Mike Huckabee placed a close second, Fred Thompson third and Mitt Romney fourth.
The win solidifies McCain's status as a front-runner and shows the U.S. senator from Arizona can appeal to the Republican Party's core voters in the South.
The results are a setback for Thompson, a former U.S. senator from Tennessee. He was banking on a victory in the state to show he could compete at the front of the pack.
"There are some tough contests ahead, and starting tomorrow in the state of Florida, where we're going to win," McCain told supporters in Charleston, S.C. "We are well on our way tonight. And I feel very good."
McCain had 33 percent of the vote, Huckabee had 30 percent and Thompson 16 percent, according to an Associated Press count with more than 90 percent of precincts reporting.
Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, scored his third win of the nomination race in Nevada's Republican caucuses. He earned 15 percent of the vote in South Carolina, according to the AP tally.
McCain's South Carolina win "is a major step forward toward the nomination," Craig Shirley, a Republican consultant in Alexandria, Va., said. "It erases his loss in Michigan and focuses new attention on him as the front-runner."
In the past 28 years, South Carolina has picked the eventual winner of the Republican nomination, according to party chairman Katon Dawson. McCain's 2000 bid for the Republican nomination was derailed in the state, which he lost to then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush.
McCain revived his campaign, which had been beset by lagging fundraising and poll numbers just a few months ago, by winning in New Hampshire on Jan. 8. He suffered a setback with his second-place showing to Romney in the Michigan primary Jan. 15.
Romney, who is trying to appeal to the conservative base of the party, shifted money from South Carolina as polls showed McCain and Huckabee fighting for the lead.
Still, Romney leads in the race for delegates who select the Republican nominee, with wins in Wyoming, Michigan and Nevada and second-place finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire, according to a tally compiled by CNN.
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