The bad news from this year’s S.C. absentee voting extravaganza is that twice as many people as four years ago had their mail-in ballots rejected because they failed the state’s attention-span test.

Beatty has been with the university’s S.C.

After deciding against slinking back to Texas when he was dealt a disappointing loss in Iowa, Perry extended his campaign long enough to juice Gingrich’s S.C. surge at a pivotal moment.