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Welcome to the Ko Point Political Explainer’s South Carolina Edition.

This week sees the return of Chris Poirier and Dan Patterson, and debuts the work of John Hansen in Guest Contributor Roles. We also enjoyed the contribution of Dan’s Associate and former Intern, now with DVF, Amanda Grinstead in a Show ID!

Longest show ever, we busted the 15 minute mark by 2 and a half minutes. But when things are good, what can we do: we gotta cover them.

Show Notes:
1) Element: Show Intro and SC Preview
Ramp: Atomic Ramp, taken from “Atomic” by Blondie

2) Element Sweep :This is KoPOint”
Intro to John Hansen
Talkset- John Hansen- South Carolina Preview
Bed: Cybarasta- Autumn Fruit, downloaded from openwiremusic.com

3) Element) OnestoneSweep
Ramp: Losecontrolramp, taken from Ash, “Lose Control”

4) Element: Chris Poiier Intro
Talkset- Chris Poirier: “KPPE Candidate Profile of Rick Santorum”
Bed: Riddimperialism- “Rhapsody in Dub feat CKLM” downloaded from openwiremusic.com

5) Element: KoPointSweepVic
Ramp: Showemwhatyougotramp, taken from Public Enemy’s “Show em what you got”

6) Talkset- What is Socialism
Bed: LR60 and Mr Moods- “Silently”, downloaded from openmusicwire.com

7) Element- alamodeid
Ramp: Songforthedeadramp, taken from Queens of the Stone Age, “Songs for the Dead”

8) Element- Dan Patterson Intro
Talkset: Dan Patterson “Notes from the Trail, South Carolina”
Bed: King Dubby “Stalag Riddim” downloaded from openmusicwire.com

9) Element- This is Kopoint Sweep
Ramp- Innocentsmile ramp, from Ash “Innocent Smile”

10) Talkset- KPPE Comentary
Bed- King Dubby, “Searching the Dub” downloaded from openmusicwire.com

11) Element Kopointshortsweepamanda
Element- FLApreview
Ramp: Kissramp, from Prince, “Kiss”

12) Element; KP Sweep Hansen
Outro

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SC Debate Post Mortem

+William Stodden and myself broke down last nights debates over roughly 271 microblogs last night, however to make it easier to follow I’ve complied my thoughts on the results here for you to absorb and enjoy:
Winner: Gingrich
Runners Up: The rest..
Romney spent his time trying to view the others from his ivory tower and it showed and probably hurt him more than anything. From avoiding a very simple tax records issue, being defensive almost the entire 120 minutes, and then pimping his book at least twice in answers. (Yeah, go back and look, he definitely quoted his book in answers..I can’t stand that..If you closed your eyes you could almost hear Obama saying the exact same thing..and that’s not the look Romney is going for and he should know better.)
Paul gave a decent showing, but he lacked life. I’m not sure if the schedule is catching up and he is slowing down or if his interest is starting to falter, but either way Ron lacked some of the early debate fire last night. Though as an aside, his loyal followers did do him a solid by forcing John King to eat crow for a second time and allow the doctor to actually comment on the abortion issue towards the end.
Santorum played the part of cornered pitbull last night and though a candidate with fire can be good, Rick simply looked upset and almost out of control at times. Raising his voice, shaking his head violently in disgust at answers, to his random uncalled for comments just didn’t do much for his position. For me, I basically stopped listening when he decided to take the first jab at Gingrich right after the other candidates didn’t take CNN’s bait on the “moral” issue up front.
..and of course that brings us to Newt. The clear winner in this contest, Newt did what Newt does best: He slayed dragons. John King looked like he wanted to crawl into his suit after asking the first question about the ABC piece on Newt and Gingrich shoved it right back in his mouth and spewed fire all over him to a very supportive crowd. He then followed up the next 100 minutes or so with confidence, prose, and his typical swagger that is simply easier for people to follow and support when compared to the actions of the other candidates.
All of this considered, recent polls, and the minimal fallout from Nightline’s piece last night, I am willing to say that Newt pulls SC on saturday and makes Florida all the more important for all candidates.
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South Carolina Polling: It’s Romney!…or is it Gingrich?!

New polls were released today in the middle of all of the of new information hitting the masses on the trail:  Everything from Rick Perry announcing his dropping out of the race and throwing his support behind Newt Gingrich, to ABC releasing transcripts from a controversial interview with Newt’s ex wife scheduled to air later today.

(Source: wire.kopoint.com)