Naw, not THAT Charleston, but it's still interesting...
Barack Obama's campaign spent nearly $67,000 in the Greenville market last week, signaling that the Obama campaign is trying to blanket every inch of the North Carolina battleground where he and McCain are now tied in the latest [...]
A quick update for everyone on the Dole/Hagan race I’ve been chatting about here on Elonkey the past few weeks.
Just days after the latest PPP poll shows Democrat Kay Hagan has surged 8 points ahead in the Tar Heel State, Politico reports that top [...]
There’s breaking news from the Miller campaign today.
What a difference a few days makes...
First, let me start by apologizing for my lack of posts the last 2 days. My cable modem has been down and the folks over at Time Warner Cable have been less than helpful. Just saying, if you have any other option for your internet needs, go for it. But [...]
“Republican state House candidate George Bailey just can’t seem to get his educational record straight.”
That’s the opening line to a scathing article in Tuesday’s edition of The Charleston Post and Courier blasting Dorchester County GOP House candidate George Bailey for what appears to be [...]
Congress has failed to pass the bi-partisan $700 billion bailout bill. From The Hill:
A patchwork of lawmakers on Monday rejected a massive bailout of the financial markets, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average spiraling down.
While a majority of House Republicans opposed the measure, [...]
I always enjoy perusing political blogs after big debates. It’s fun to click back and forth between GOP and Dem sites to see who can craft the most outrageous, hyper-partisan, positive spin for their guy. After all, in the blog world, it’s not about mind-numbing, neutral analysis. [...]
Now that the Ole Miss Debate is officially a go, let the games begin...John McCain’s wingman hints that The Mac will show up to tonight’s Ole Miss debate:
McCain ducked the question Friday morning on Capitol Hill, not saying a word when reporters asked him if he was going to the debate.
But Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), McCain’s closest ally on Capitol Hill, [...]
With the polls showing a tightening race here in the Palmetto State, the South Carolina Democratic Party is swinging into high gear this Saturday (September 27) to launch a massive GOTV effort in key areas across the state. And the SCDP is seeking volunteers to go [...]
The smart folks over at SurveyUSA have already interviewed 1,000 people from across the country to see what they think of John McCain’s latest campaign-suspension/debate-delay strategy:
A majority of Americans say the debate should be held on Friday. Just 10% say the debate should be postponed. A sizable percentage [...]
Ok, so McCain’s suddenly suspending his campaign activities and wants out of Friday’s Ole Miss Debate to focus on pushing the President’s proposed $700 billion bailout of the financial markets through Congress. 
After years of fielding complaints from angry residents, Myrtle Beach has passed 15 ordinances designed to crack down on the City’s popular motorcycle rallies – a series of two week events that draw as many as 300,000 visitors to the Grand Strand area every May.
Lowcountry residents will be gathering together and gettin’ down in Mount Pleasant at The Amphitheater in the I’On Community on Saturday, October 11th from 5 to 6:30 p.m. to celebrate the upcoming November elections. The concert is free and open to the public. 
The latest South Carolina poll shows John McCain’s lead over Barack Obama is down to just six percentage points.
This week’s Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the presidential race finds McCain leading Obama 51% to 45% in the Palmetto State.
Back in June, [...]
The N.C. and S.C. Dems are teaming up next week in a massive voter registration drive and GOTV effort that will sweep across the Tar Heel State.
Thursday evening, South Carolina Democrats received the following email encouraging all Obama supporters to donate some free time and [...]
It’s always fascinating to see how people outside our sleepy little state view South Carolina races.
Earlier this week, allegations resurfaced that Rep. Henry Brown misused his office in an attempt to avoid paying a U.S. Forest Service fine for a fire he inadvertently set off [...]
Once again, the Palmetto State breaks the top ten in a best-of-the-worst national ranking. This time, it’s for our record-setting unemployment rate – the fifth-highest in the U.S:
South Carolina's unemployment rate jumped to 7.6 percent in August, the highest rate since May 1993 and the fifth-highest in [...]
While McCain successfully fired up his social conservative base by picking Palin as his running mate, new polling suggests that the "Alaska Maverick's" favorability ratings among mainstream voters are falling fast:
Gov. Sarah Palin's favorable/unfavorable ratings have suffered a stunning 21 point collapse in just one week, according to Research 2000 [...]
A little of this, a little of that from across the state:
CALLS ON CONGRESSMAN TO BE LESS “INVISIBLE”
Linda Ketner threw down the gauntlet Wednesday, challenging incumbent Henry Brown (R-SC) to a series of three public debates in the First Congressional District between now and Election Day.
Ketner, a Charleston community leader and businesswoman, argued that “voters deserve [...]
Over the last two weeks, the new “maverick” McCain/Palin ticket incredulously managed to hijack Obama’s “change” message and somehow brand the four-term Senator as a Washington outsider in the eyes of many American voters.
However, it appears as though the lingering fog of Palinsanity may finally be lifting. At [...]
Once again, South Carolina tops another worst-of-the-worst lists. This time, the Palmetto State is atop the FBI's "most violent states" rankings for the second year running:
South Carolina suffered more violent crime than any other state last year, matching its dismal performance in the FBI's annual report for [...]
Originally, I wasn’t going to respond to Josh Gross’s hateful posts like some of my fellow progressive bloggers have chosen to do. After all, people that partisan and angry usually can’t be swayed by even the most compelling arguments from their opponents. But I believe his Thursday [...] 
Why can’t the South Carolina Democratic Party come up with anything this clever?
To advance the sensation caused by Sen. Claire McCaskill’s stinging rebuke of her colleague Elizabeth Dole yesterday, the NC Democratic Party has set up a new website, “Liddy’s Slippers: The Truth [...]
Let’s face it, there’s nothing happening in South Carolina’s U.S. Senate race. So to help fill the void, I’ve been following the highly contentious Dole v. Hagan Senate race raging just north of the border.
For all you dear Elonkey readers living outside the [...]
It’s a slow news day here in the Palmetto State. Not a whole lot to chat about today, but I do have a few political tidbits to share with everyone:
Meadors, Bryant to debate in Anderson
The man who put the b.s. in blogging will face off against [...]
Obama Strikes Back
Finally, Obama started hitting back at Palin this weekend. During a campaign stop in Terre Haute, IN, Obama reminded everyone at the rally that prior to Palin’s recent opposition to congressional earmarks, she was a strong supporter of the practice. He also took [...]
Beyond last night’s fire and brimstone remarks, the most fascinating aspect of Sarah Palin’s speech was what it revealed about her selection as McCain’s VP and, in turn, the campaign’s strategy headed into November.
Before Palin took out the weed-whacker on Obama, she began deftly defining [...]
They say politics makes for strange bedfellows, but hiring the guy who smeared you in the S.C. primary during your first run for president? I don’t know…
Former officials of Sen. John McCain's 2000 campaign expressed shock and disbelief Monday to learn than the GOP presidential nominee had [...]
DEMOCRATS CHANCE TO DEFINE PALIN GOING DOWN THE DRAIN
The Labor Day, Hurricane-sized, Palin dump continues. On the eve of the RNC, news broke that Palin’s eldest daughter is preggers, her husband was arrested for DUI back in the day...oh, and that the Governor initially supported the same [...]
Democratic senate candidate Bob Conley is back in the headlines again for all the wrong reasons. In response to remarks by Rep. Jim Clyburn earlier this week that no one in the S.C. Democratic Party was paying attention to Conley’s race -- and, therefore, don’t seem to [...]
South Carolina Democrats have begun responding to John McCain's choice today of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his GOP running mate.
During an interview on SCETV Radio this morning, Rep. Jim Clyburn drew a not-too-flattering comparison between Palin's pick and former V.P. Dan Quayle and former Veep nominee [...]
Democratic congressional candidate Linda Ketner has launched two new 30 second spots that will begin airing throughout the South Carolina First Congressional District this week.
The first ad, “Faith,” highlights Ketner’s background growing up in a little town called Faith (NC that is) and features a testimonial from her father, Food [...]
Last night’s live blogging of the Democratic National Convention was so fun, we decided to do it again!
To moderate or not to moderate, that’s today’s question… A comment debate on one of my recent posts sparked the following response from me and got me thinking about the difficulties in striking a balance between provoking thoughtful debates among readers, and avoiding over-sanitized comment sections that [...]
Every election cycle, voters complain about the barrage of negative ads thrown at them from candidates on both sides of the aisle. But despite being annoying and nasty, as this week's WSJ/NBC poll shows, they're also highly effective.
By a nearly six-to-one margin, voters say Sen. John McCain [...]
It's only August, but the S.C. Second Congressional District race is heating up already. Yesterday, Rep. Joe Wilson and his staff made national headlines after the Congressman inadvertently posted his Democratic challenger Rob Miller's press release to the front page of the GOP incumbent's campaign website.
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