Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post believes that the current South Carolina playing field favors John McCain.
Me, I'm not so sure. Yes, demographic and other changes in the state have led, in the past 8 years, to fiscal conservative candidates beating out social conservatives. But unlike Cillizza, I don't believe McCain is the lone fiscal conservative running against three social conservatives. He forgets how Mitt Romney won Michigan--by focusing on economic issues and changing Washington, including its free-spending ways. If Romney cuts into McCain's economic-conservative bloc, then it's anyone's ballgame in the Palmetto State.
