The exit polls, with the complete ”second wave” of data, put McCain starting to inch ahead of Huckabee by a few points. Mitt and Fred back quite a bit, essentially competing for third place.

If you’re a South Carolinian, you ought not let something like this deter you from voting. (Nor should it really thrill you – these things have been wrong before.) I pass this on just for the sake of informing readers who are voracious for additional tea leaves to read…

UPDATE: This is interesting. I’m being told of mechanical and computer breakdowns at some polling places. Eastern part of the state, I’m told, which would, at least on paper, be McCain country (or at least that was his base of support in 2000).

ANOTHER UPDATE: I’m told that at some polling places, they forgot to clear out the test votes before voting began, and then when they tried to do it, the computers crashed. So then they switched to paper ballots, and at some polling places, they ran out of paper ballots. Democracy in action!