In 2008, John McCain took perennial red state South Carolina by a nine point margin over Barack Obama in the presidential election. Looking forward to 2012 though, Obama seems poised to make that race a little tighter — or to win it outright if Republicans nominate a particularly polarizing candidate like Sarah Palin, according to a new PPP poll.
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