Columbia, S.C.
Michele Bachmann spoke on Tuesday morning to a Christian group here, whom she told about growing up poor and her devout Christian faith. (“The most important thing is eternity, and what we can do for eternity.”) The Minnesota Congresswoman is looking awfully strong in Iowa, but as one GOP operative put it to me …
Alvin Greene, the Democratic party’s U.S. Senate candidate from South Carolina, was indicted Friday on felony charges for showing pornography to a South Carolina college student.
That’s bad news for Greene, and Democrats generally. But all hope is not lost. Last night, according to the Columbia Free-Times, Greene gave a 23-second …
I wanted to post this video yesterday, but never had time to report out the identity of its author. Thankfully, CNN’s Peter Hamby, the network’s man for all things South Carolina, did the legwork. It turns out that this is not an official campaign product of Alvin Greene, the Democratic party’s unexpected candidate for the U.S. Senate …
A week ago in the living room of South Carolina’s Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, I asked Alvin Greene if there was anything that had not yet been written about by the press that he wanted to get out. “Bring the Air Force discharge up,” Greene replied. “Y’all go and get that.”
This was not the response I had …
South Carolina Democrats met this afternoon in Columbia to hear the election protest from Vic Rawl, the man who lost the Senate primary to Alvin Greene. Rawl made the case for a new primary with three arguments, according to The State.
1. The voting machines are susceptible to accidental or intentional modification or tampering and,
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Time.com just posted my story about the latest drama in South Carolina, the election of Alvin Greene as the Democratic nominee to challenge Sen. Jim DeMint. I spent the day Monday with Greene and his challenger, Vic Rawl, who will go before the state Democratic Party to protest the election results this afternoon. An excerpt:
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Manning, S.C.
At his home Monday, Alvin Greene spent the day fielding phone calls, dozens of them from fans and reporters and bookers all across the country. Nearly a week earlier, he had pulled off a major upset, winning the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate from South Carolina, despite no real campaign. “People are willing …
Via Peter Hamby, Barrett is going up with this spot statewide:
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So far, he’s declining to directly criticize — or draw any real distinction from — Haley and her reformer message. Some may accuse Barrett of dog whistling about Mark Sanford, Will Folks or even Haley’s Sikh …
Reporting politics in South Carolina is like trying to figure out who stole the finger paints in an elementary school classroom. Rumors abound. The culprits play coy. Cliques conspire to eschew blame.
So it was not surprising last night when word began circulating that J. Gresham Barrett, who finished a distant second in the GOP …
People are unhappy. They’ve been unhappy for a while: through Enron and the .com bubble bursting, 9/11, two wars, Katrina. They thought Barack Obama would bring change but few have felt the changes he’s wrought: who can imagine how bad the economy could have gotten sans stimulus? It feels bad enough as it is. Then came the Gulf oil …
The website of a South Carolina blogger who has confessed to an “inappropriate physical relationship” with Republican candidate for governor, Nikki Haley, has now published reams of electronic messages that certainly suggest the Haley campaign, which has denied the allegations, thought something was going on. At one point, according to …
Does anyone know what an “inappropriate physical relationship” even means? Does it matter, given the carnival nuttiness of the South Carolina GOP? First, let’s back up.
Mark Sanford, the sitting GOP governor, fell in love with someone who was not his wife, told his staff he was going backpacking, then flew secretly to Argentina and …
The state’s new immigration law is now so pervasive in the political landscape, it’s being used as a campaign platform in faraway, borderless South Carolina. Republican Rep. Gresham Barrett, who’s running for governor, is up with this ad stating, “Gresham Barrett’s immigration plan: pass a common-sense Arizona law,” complete with images …