I’ll be watching the primary in South Carolina today with interest.  ”We pick presidents” the saying goes down in South Carolina and if Mitt Romney wins he will surely be clear favourite for the nomination.

But it is not so clear a ride for Ronmey who has slipped up from being the clear favourite to win the state primary.  Newt Gingrich and now even Rick Santorum are looking for a piece of the action - if either of these win, the race will be wide open.  And of course Ron Paul will get his 10% slice of votes.

They say Jon Huntsman dropping out should give Mitt a boost but as a neutral I hope Newt wins - perhaps picking up the 2% Perry would have won. This will have 3 winners in the first 3 states now it turns out Ricky took Iowa.