Haley: What Caused The Civil War? Er ...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : While in New Hampshire trying to push her #2 position into a real challenge to Donald Trump, Haley got asked a very simple question: "What was the cause of the United States Civil War?"
57% : But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution.
56% : Thus the constituted compact has been deliberately broken and disregarded by the non-slaveholding States, and the consequence follows that South Carolina is released from her obligation.
49% : The State of New Jersey, at an early day, passed a law in conformity with her constitutional obligation; but the current of anti-slavery feeling has led her more recently to enact laws which render inoperative the remedies provided by her own law and by the laws of Congress.
37% : Haley didn't have much chance of winning either state before this, and while this may not damage her, it certainly doesn't help -- especially for a candidate who's been bragging about her five-inch combat heels for the last few months to sell herself as the toughest candidate on the ballot.
24% : Haley may be worried that South Carolina primary voters don't want to hear a straightforward and honest answer, or perhaps more simply, that she doesn't want to give those voters an excuse to flip back to Trump on this pretext.

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