Here's today's key story out of the South Carolina local press: The Spartanburg Herald-Journal has a story about Janet Huckabee's three-day bus tour of the first Southern primary state, accompanied by former South Carolina first ladies Iris Campbell and Mary Wood Beasley.

Huckabee has been enjoying a surge in the Iowa polls lately, but would need some organization and constituency beyond that even if he were to win the first caucus. South Carolina, with its large number of evangelical conservatives, would seem like fertile ground for the ex-governor and Baptist minister.