The weather in South Carolina today is… not pretty.

Reader Dave, in that neck of the woods, sees it this way, “Brutal, just brutal. The threat of snow flurries paralyzes a Southern state. “Thinking about’ or “leaning to” — you can forget it. “Get out the vote” — they won’t be got. This contest, on the Saturday of a 3-day weekend, is a battle of “totally committed”s.”

UPDATE: I’m now hearing three to five inches of snow — snow! –expected in the northern (heavily Republican) part of the state.