SC-5: “Fightin’ Fifth” Getting Testy
BARBS FLY IN SPECIAL CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION … As the date draws nigh for this spring’s special election in the South Carolina fifth congressional district, the...
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SC-5: Ralph Norman Wins GOP Straw Poll
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FIFTH DISTRICT RACE HEATING UP … We don’t put much stock in straw polls. Nor should you. They basically a measure of activist engagement. And geographic...
SC-5: Confederate Flag Waved
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SPECIAL CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION GETS “FLAGGED …” The special election for South Carolina’s fifth congressional district – a.k.a. the “Fightin’ Fifth” – just got flagged. Sheri...
SC Trial Lawyers Raise Big Bucks For Tommy Pope
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SPECIAL INTEREST DOLLARS FLOWING … Several of the Palmetto State’s most influential trial lawyers – and left-leaning politicians – are raising big bucks on behalf...
SC-5: Sheri Few Gains Support
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FRINGE CANDIDATE NO MORE? This website holds social conservative activist Sheri Few in low esteem – and we’ve said so on numerous occasions in the...
SC-5: Ralph Norman Goes On TV
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CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE LAUNCHES TWO SPOTS … Former South Carolina state lawmaker Ralph Norman is on the air with not one but two television advertisements in this...
Dan Hoover: Tommy Pope A “True Conservative”
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FIFTH DISTRICT VOTERS HAVE A CLEAR CHOICE … Over all and parts of six decades I covered politics for newspapers in North Carolina, South Carolina...
SC-5: Tommy Pope Launches TV Ad
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FRONTRUNNER OUT OF THE GATE WITH INTRODUCTORY TELEVISION SPOT … S.C. Speaker pro tempore Tommy Pope has launched the first ad of his front-running (for now)...
“Fightin’ Fifth” Loses A Candidate
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AS DOES THE REPUBLICAN PARTY … Penry Gustafson based her congressional campaign on the idea that ordinary people needed a voice in Washington, D.C. – and...
Democrat Files For “Fightin’ Fifth”
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TAX ATTORNEY JUMPS INTO CONGRESSIONAL RACE … Eviscerated in last fall’s general election, Democrats are nonetheless soldiering on in the South Carolina fifth congressional district...