S.C. Heads to the Polls

A veteran poll manager for 35 years, Virginia Hill had her reservations about a Saturday primary. But she said turnout seemed to at least meet numbers of past primaries. 

"It's amazing," she said. "We've had a real steady flow."

The race for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination brought out voters in Iowa and New Hampshire comparable to 2008 numbers. But the expectation is that South Carolina would provide the clearest picture yet of conservative sentiment.

At Westview Middle School, where three precincts were combined, the line was 30-deep at 10:30 a.m. Poll manager Brad Williams said they've seen about 100 voters an hour.

Other parts of the state were already seeing heavy rain early in the day, and reporting that turnout had been impacted.

Storms were expected to move into the Lowcountry late in the afternoon, possibly impacting the late-day turnout.

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