29 Days To Election Day: South Carolina

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  October 8th at 07:06 AM  | 

South Carolina gains a seat in the House this decade. The current House delegation is 5-1 Republican. This is a very Republican state and Mitt Romney will win their 9 electoral votes. Adding insult to injury is the recent public relations debacle of the Obama Administration’s NLRB and Boeing’s proposed plant in South Carolina. In the coastal First District, Tim Scott, the Republican incumbent who | Read More »

Around the U.S. in 50 Days: South Carolina

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  February 11th at 10:22 AM  | 

Politics in South Carolina is not for the faint of heart. In 1978, a stooge third party candidate was created to hurl anti-Semitic remarks against a Democratic House candidate. There was the 1980 campaign of Strom Thurmond orchestrated by noted operative and South Carolina native, Lee Atwater, that added the phrase “push polling” to the political lexicon. Everyone is familiar with the strategy employed by | Read More »