{"id":117,"date":"2008-01-20T13:43:55","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T13:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathansnews.com\/congratulations-senator-john-mccain.htm"},"modified":"2008-01-20T13:43:55","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T13:43:55","slug":"congratulations-senator-john-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathansnews.com\/2008\/01\/congratulations-senator-john-mccain\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Senator John McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.l.cnn.net\/cnn\/.element\/img\/2.0\/sect\/election\/primaries\/results\/candidate\/bio\/1701.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<p>South Carolina has spoken.<\/p>\n<p>After eight long years, US Senator John McCain has earned the coveted title of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.aol.com\/elections\/story\/_a\/mccain-wins-south-carolina-primary\/20080119082309990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001\">winner<\/a> of the Palmetto State Presidential Primary.<\/p>\n<p>Written off for dead months ago and low on cash, many national and local pundits had written him off.<\/p>\n<p>I give credit where credit is due. His staff ran a great campaign and turned out the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Senator McCain and Governor Huckabee captured all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/ELECTION\/2008\/primaries\/results\/scorecard\/#R\">delegate votes <\/a>from our state and now the contest heads to Florida for a <a href=\"http:\/\/youdecide08.foxnews.com\/2008\/01\/20\/candidates-move-forward-after-flush-of-victory-in-nevada-south-carolina\/\">January 29th showdown<\/a>.  After that, it&#8217;s Super Tuesday (February 5) and on to the convention.<\/p>\n<p>We had over 4,000 voters in House District 71 get out and support the candidate of their choice yesterday and I&#8217;m proud to see it takes more than a cold rain and sleet to keep us away from our civic responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina has spoken. After eight long years, US Senator John McCain has earned the coveted title of winner of the Palmetto State Presidential Primary. Written off for dead months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Congratulations, Senator John McCain - Nathan Ballentine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nathansnews.com\/2008\/01\/congratulations-senator-john-mccain\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Congratulations, Senator John McCain - Nathan Ballentine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"South Carolina has spoken. 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