Newt Gingrich won Georgetown County and South Carolina on Saturday in the Republican Presidential Preference Primary. As debates go, many analysts say he “hit it out of the park” in a pair of debates in Myrtle Beach and Charleston.
He fired up a lot of voters and managed a comfortable win over Mitt Romney.
Gingrich had 46 percent of the vote in Georgetown County to 34 percent for Romney. Rick Santorum had 12 percent and Ron Paul 7 percent.
Statewide, Gingrich had 40 percent, Romney 28, Santorum 17 and Paul 13 percent.
The campaign moves on to Florida and other states as Republicans try to sort out who their nominee will be.
One of the somewhat disheartening bits of information is that the best voter turnout in Georgetown County came in two of the Pawleys Island precincts with about 36 percent of registered voters. While this was a Republican primary and not a general vote, that’s still a somewhat low percentage.
For the whole county, 23.5 percent of the county’s 41,003 voters cast ballots.
For more than two centuries, men and women have fought, bled and died for our rights and freedoms, including the right to vote.
It’s important that we honor their sacrifices by going to the polls on election day to exercise that right.
In March, county, state and federal candidates will file for election.
For those races, and for the June primary and general election in November, it will be good for folks to learn about the candidates, go to public meetings and forums to get to meet and hear them, and take the time to vote.
In 2008, Barack Obama made history by becoming the first black to be elected President.
Whether you think he’s done a good job and deserves another term, or believe one is enough and it’s time for someone else to have the job, it’s important to vote in November for each of the offices.
We face many issues in Georgetown County that are important to the future. Who’s the next President is important, but it’s also quite important to pick good people for Georgetown County Council, School Board, local county offices and state representatives and senators. And then there’s also the new 7th Congressional District.
For all of these important jobs, we need more than a fourth of our voters to get out and vote.
Make sure you can wear the “I Voted” sticker on Nov. 6.
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