On the South Carolina primary date, all I can say is that GOP officials there have always been determined to hold the first-in-the-South primary. Katon Dawson, head of the state Republican party, has told me several times, as well as everybody else, that he will hold the primary on Halloween, if that’s what it takes. Whatever New Hampshire did, Dawson was dead set on staying ahead of Florida and any other state that might try to move ahead of South Carolina.