New Voters in S.C. Could Help Obama

Conservative stronghold could fall from GOP ranks for the first time since 1976.

ByABC News
October 1, 2008, 7:43 AM

GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Former Democratic National Committee chairman Don Fowler isn't ready to bet money on Barack Obama winning the Palmetto State in the Nov. 4 presidential election.

But Fowler, chairman of Columbia-based Fowler Communications, said a confluence of factors makes it possible that this stronghold of Deep South conservatism could fall from the ranks of the GOP for the first time since Jimmy Carter in 1976 and for only the second since John F. Kennedy in 1960.

His arguments include: