The 2012 Republican presidential race is just starting to warm up, with a whole bunch of possible candidates now set to drop into the key primary state of South Carolina:
⢠Mike Pence will visit this weekend, to keynote a black-tie dinner by the conservative group the Awakening Conference.
⢠Newt Gingrich will visit next Thursday, and address the Grand Strand Business Association in Myrtle Beach.
⢠Rick Santorum will visit next Saturday, two days after Gingrich, appearing at an anti-abortion rally at the state Capitol.
