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Lindsey Graham: The Tea Party Will 'Die Out'

It has no 'coherent vision,' says senator

(Newser) - Tea Partiers don't think much of Lindsey Graham because he's willing to work with Democrats on the occasional issue. The conservative South Carolina senator doesn't think much of them, either. “The problem with the Tea Party, I think it’s just unsustainable because they can never come up with...

South Carolina Poised to Elect (Gasp!) a Black Republican

The South hasn't done that since 1898

(Newser) - Tim Scott has a real chance of being the first black Republican elected from the South since the 19th century, but he doesn't want to dwell on it. “I'm looking to the future,” the South Carolina candidate says. Despite the state's troubled racial history, Scott seems destined for...

Nikki Haley Easily Wins GOP Runoff

She's poised to become S. Carolina's first female governor

(Newser) - Nikki Haley handily won the Republican nomination for governor last night in South Carolina. The runoff victory moves her an important step closer to becoming the first female governor in the conservative-leaning state. She brushed aside allegations of marital infidelity and an ethnic slur to come within a percentage point...

SC Dems Stick With Greene
 SC Dems Stick With Greene 
Jun 18, 2010 6:51 AM CDT

SC Dems Stick With Greene

Party rejects Vic Rawl's primary challenge

(Newser) - Alvin Greene will be South Carolina's Democratic nominee for the US Senate, the executive committee of the state's Democratic Party decided last night. The committee rejected defeated candidate Vic Rawl's bid to oust the surprise nominee and hold a new primary, the State reports. Rawl argued that faulty voting machines...

Alvin Greene: I Should Be Man of the Year
Alvin Greene: I Should Be Man of the Year
Interview
Jun 17, 2010 1:59 PM CDT

Alvin Greene: I Should Be Man of the Year

Unlikely SC candidate has no computer, cell phone or headquarters

(Newser) - Alvin Greene seems to be having trouble starting his campaign. Time got a look at the unlikely candidate’s “headquarters”—which is to say, his 81-year-old dad’s house—and discovered that Greene doesn’t have a computer, a cell phone, or staff, let alone any campaign plans....

South Carolina GOP Battles Against Haley

National party wants her, but locals are going rogue

(Newser) - National Republicans may be throwing themselves behind Nikki Haley, but much of the South Carolina GOP is doing everything it can to thwart her ahead of the June 22 runoff primary. Many lawmakers, and one former candidate, are backing GOP congressman Gresham Barrett, as is the state Chamber of Commerce....

SC Loser Lodges Formal Protest

Rawl blames machines for Greene's win

(Newser) - Vic Rawl is crying foul over his defeat by total unknown Alvin Greene in the South Carolina Democratic primary for the US Senate. Rawl, a former judge and state lawmaker, has filed a formal protest with the state's Democratic Party over what he calls the "strange circumstances" surrounding his...

Nikki Haley Downplays Her Race
 Nikki Haley Downplays Her Race
Jun 14, 2010 9:07 AM CDT

Nikki Haley Downplays Her Race

Indian-American candidate wants to blend in

(Newser) - Nikki Haley will likely be the first non-white, non-male governor South Carolina has ever had, but she doesn’t seem too keen to dwell on that fact. “I love that people think it’s a good story,” she tells the New York Times , “but I don’t...

Olbermann Interviews SC's Alvin Greene— Sort Of

But it's a little better than candidate's previous ones

(Newser) - Alvin Greene continued his halting media tour with an interview on Keith Olbermann's show last night. We didn't learn much more—he insisted he's not a plant and will not step down ("no, sir"), and would not talk about his felony charge. He also seemed to have an...

Clyburn Says SC Candidate Is a 'Plant'

Congressman wants a federal inquiry into 'fishy' Alvin Greene

(Newser) - Jim Clyburn thinks Alvin Greene, the Democrats’ anonymous , allegedly felonious new Senate candidate, is a ringer. “There were some real shenanigans going on in the South Carolina primary,” the House Majority whip told a liberal radio show today, incredulous that the unemployed Greene could muster the $10,000...

Surprise Winner: Felony Rap Won't Bump Me From SC Senate Race

Dems tell Alvin Green to quit

(Newser) - South Carolina's Democratic Party wants surprise Senate nominee Alvin Greene to hurry up and go back to being an unknown. The leader of the state party says she has asked Greene to pull out of the race because of his pending felony charge for showing an obscene photograph to a...

Surprise SC Candidate Faces Felony
Surprise SC Candidate
Faces Felony
Jun 9, 2010 3:03 PM CDT

Surprise SC Candidate Faces Felony

Accused of showing obscene photos to young woman

(Newser) - Hard to believe, but there's some dirt flying around about a politician in South Carolina. This time it's Alvin Greene, the unemployed mystery man who inexplicably won the Democratic primary to run against Senator Jim DeMint in the fall. Greene, 32, faces a felony charge on accusations that he showed...

Jobless Guy Who Didn't Campaign Wins SC Primary

Alphabet helped, says Democratic chief

(Newser) - Alvin Greene's surprise victory in South Carolina's Democratic Senate primary has left much of the state asking: "Who?" The 32-year-old unemployed Army veteran had no campaign funds and no website but still managed to defeat former judge Vic Rawl, and will now be running against incumbent Republican Sen. Jim...

Nikki Haley Has Big Lead
 Nikki Haley Race 
 Heads to Runoff 
primary night
Jun 8, 2010 9:00 PM CDT

Nikki Haley Race Heads to Runoff

She's the top vote-getter in SC governor's primary

(Newser) - Nikki Haley easily survived the whiff of scandal tonight in her first step toward becoming South Carolina's first female governor. With nearly all the votes counted, Haley held a double-digit lead over her Republican primary opponents, though she is just short of the 50% mark needed to avoid a runoff,...

Tomorrow's Key Primary Races
 Tomorrow's Key Primary Races 
Jun 7, 2010 12:31 PM CDT

Tomorrow's Key Primary Races

Nevada to decide who'll face Harry Reid

(Newser) - Tomorrow's primary races will set the stage for gubernatorial and Senate contests in 11 states. Time reports on the 9 key races—here are 4 of the most important.
  1. Nevada, Republican Senate: The state will decide who is to take on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. It's shaping up to
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SC Politician Apologizes for 'Raghead' Slur

It was a just a joke, says lawmaker who stung Haley, Obama

(Newser) - The South Carolina politician who used the term "raghead" to describe Nikki Haley and President Obama says his comment has been—wait for it—taken out of context. "My ‘raghead’ comments about Obama and Haley were intended in jest,” state Senator Jake Knotts tells the State...

SC Senator Calls Haley, President 'Ragheads'

GOP demands apology from Jake Knotts

(Newser) - South Carolina GOP state senator Jake Knotts is under fire from his own party after using a racial slur to describe Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley and President Obama. "We already got one raghead in the White House, we don’t need a raghead in the governor’s mansion,...

Nikki Haley Denies Claim of 2nd Affair
 Nikki Haley Denies 
 Claim of 2nd Affair 
lobbyist has no evidence
Jun 3, 2010 7:55 AM CDT

Nikki Haley Denies Claim of 2nd Affair

Nothing but 'disgusting politics,' she says

(Newser) - Here we go again: A South Carolina lobbyist resigned from a rival political campaign yesterday and then became the second man to claim he had a tryst with Nikki Haley . Lobbyist Larry Marchant says he and Haley, who's running for governor, had a "one night indiscretion" in a Salt...

Nikki Haley's New Ad: Meet My Husband

SC candidate says she's seen the 'dark side' of politics

(Newser) - Nikki Haley's new TV ad in South Carolina addresses the flap over her unsubstantiated sex scandal without exactly mentioning it. "I’ve seen the dark side of our state’s politics," says the GOP gubernatorial candidate. The short spot ends with her introducing her husband, notes Talking Points...

Folks: There's a 'Compromising' Haley Pic

 Folks: There's a 
 'Compromising' 
 Haley Pic 
inevitability dept?
May 28, 2010 7:38 AM CDT

Folks: There's a 'Compromising' Haley Pic

Conservative blogger is gathering witnesses

(Newser) - Nikki Haley's situation just got a little stickier: There is apparently a photo floating around of the would-be gov and Will Folks in a “compromising position.” Folks revealed this little tidbit yesterday; ironically, he knows about the photograph because in early 2009 someone (who hired a private investigator...

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