Primary Politics

As South Carolina’s GOP claws its way up the primary calendar, pressure on Iowa and New Hampshire mounts to keep their primary dates ahead of the political melee to maintain first-in-the-nation status.

Members of the South Carolina Republican party told South Carolina newspaper, The State, that their state party chair Katon Dawson will announce a January 19th primary date today in New Hampshire. (LINK)

South Carolina’s primary was originally set for Feb. 2, but in order to maintain a first-in-the-South billing had to schedule it earlier than Florida’s January 29th primary.