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Saturday’s primary in South Carolina rocked the entire field. No doubt about it. But let’s not get carried away, folks. Yes, Newt Gingrich won handily with 40 percent of the vote. But now that the hangover has passed, let’s put the South Carolina primary in perspective.

A few hundred thousand votes in arguably one of the most conservative states in the union does not a presidential candidate coronate. Gingrich won Saturday’s primary because of two red-meat responses in packed convention centers that followed two bone-headed questions from moderators. Newt knew exactly what he was doing â€" he was playing to the crowd, and using the media and wacko leftist thought as the common enemy everyone in the room shared those nights.

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