In 2000, Greenville County was 11.8 percent of the statewide vote, and Bush won big: 58 percent to 33 percent.

Tonight, with 46 percent of precincts reporting, it’s a tie, McCain 27 percent to Huckabee 27 percent. Thompson’s got 21 percent, Romney’s got 18 percent.

Second most populous county back then was Charleston (8.4 percent of the state’s turnout), and it was the only one in the top ten most populous to back McCain, 50 percent to Bush 47 percent.

Tonight, with 77 percent reporting, Charleston County has McCain at 44 percent, Romney at 19 percent, Huckabee at 17 percent, Thompson at 12.

I had hoped to find some sort of “ah-ha!” statistic, showing that McCain was dramatically overperforming or underperforming his 2000 numbers, but so far there’s no trend that is quite clear enough.

The only thing that raises my eyebrows was looking back at Spartanburg. In 2000, it was one of Bush’s best, where he won 58 percent to McCain’s 36 percent. (This county made up 6.6 percent of the statewide turnout.)

Tonight, with 75 percent reporting, Huckabee has 34 percent, McCain has 27 percent, Thompson has 20 percent, and Romney 13. For a populous county with a lot of folks who didn’t vote for McCain last time, you would think that Huckabee could, and would need to, run up a wide margin. So far, a six percent margin seems pretty thin…

UPDATE: I’m getting the county totals from here.