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Presidential Race
4:47 pm
Sat January 21, 2012

Gingrich Has Chance For 'Pretty Big Win' In S.C.

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Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and his wife, Callista, celebrate after Gingrich was declared the winner of South Carolina's primary Saturday.
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"Our party can't be led to victory by someone who also has never run a business and never led a state," Mitt Romney told his disappointed supporters.
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Rick Santorum vowed to go forward after finishing third. "It's a wide-open race. Join the fight," he said.
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Ron Paul finished fourth, but told supporters the campaign was still in its early stages. "This is the beginning of a long hard slog," he said.
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Gingrich supporters celebrate his win at a rally in Columbia.
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Kenny Ball holds his daughter, McKenna, while watching primary returns at Ron Paul's primary night campaign rally in Columbia.
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Romney supporters in Columbia, S.C., watch primary results roll in.
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Voters cast their ballots in Charleston, S.C.
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Signs adorn the doorway of a polling station in Charleston, S.C.
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Romney waves from his campaign bus after making a stop at Tommy's Country Ham House in Greenville.
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Gingrich greets potential voters at the Grapevine Restaurant in Boiling Springs.
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Celebrating in South Carolina on Saturday night, Newt Gingrich said his victory proved "people powered with the right ideas beats big money."
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Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 10:05 am

Newt Gingrich has beaten Mitt Romney in South Carolina. The question now becomes whether he can pull off that trick enough times in enough states to deny Romney the Republican presidential nomination.

It was a big win for Gingrich, the former House speaker, who took 40 percent of the vote, compared to 28 percent for Romney, a former Massachusetts governor.

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It's All Politics
4:27 pm
Sat January 21, 2012

'Dirty' Politics As Usual In South?

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South Carolinians are voting today in the GOP primary, which some pundits see as the candidates' last stand for getting the GOP nomination to run in the general election.

On weekends on All Things Considered today, host Guy Raz talked with Danielle Vinson, the chair of the political science department at Furman University in Greenville, S.C., about what is often considered "dirty" South Carolina primary politics.

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Presidential Race
4:23 pm
Sat January 21, 2012

South Carolina Primary: Live Blog And Results

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The third major contest of the 2012 Republican presidential campaign — South Carolina's primary — is being held today and we're live blogging as the news comes in. As we post, you'll get a message alerting you that there are new updates. Just click on that message and the news should flow right into the box below.

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The Two-Way
3:00 pm
Sat January 21, 2012

South Carolina Primary: Join Us For Live Updates

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A polling station in Columbia, S.C., earlier today (Jan. 21, 2012).
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The third major contest of the 2012 Republican presidential campaign is being held today in South Carolina and as we did during the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, we'll be helping out the NPR elections team by live blogging as the news comes in.

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Asia
2:00 pm
Sat January 21, 2012

Risking The Danger Of Defection In North Korea

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North and South Korea are still officially at war, even though a truce was declared more than 50 years ago. As a result, there are upwards of 22,000 North Korean defectors now living in South Korea. The journey across the heavily guarded border is treacherous and often deadly. It's been just over a month since Kim Jong Un rose to power after his father Kim Jong Il's sudden death and there are some reports of would-be defectors being shot down while trying to flee the impoverished nation.

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