"When you look at the calculation that goes into everything that Hillary Clinton does, for her to argue that she was not aware of what she was communicating by her dress is like Barry Bonds saying he thought he was rubbing down with flaxseed oil."

-- Political analyst John Harwood, speaking yesterday on Meet the Press about Hillary's showing of cleavage on the Senate floor. Your punditry, ladies and gents. One wonders what exactly Hillary was supposed to be "communicating" here.

South Carolina has become a GOP stronghold in the South, but a venerable daily newspaper, The State, is now reporting that widespread disenchantment with Gov. Mark Sanford suggests that Dems are eroding the GOP's once-automatic dominance in key swing counties. The Dem resurgence appears to be caused by job losses and gridlock between Sanford and his own co-partisans in the GOP-led Legislature. More interesting, the paper sees this trend as a sign that old-line Dems driven into the arms of the GOP by racial and cultural politics may be "coming back." As one GOPer puts it, speaking of Sanford's Dem challenger: "I see a lot of Republicans voting for Tommy Moore."

Gov. Mark Sanford’s (R) poor relations with South Carolina’s Republican controlled General Assembly and with voters in the western regions of the state continue to harm his reelection campaign. In the most recent move, Republican leaders from the state senate have begun publicly defending the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, state Sen. Tommy Moore, from GOP attacks.

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Gov. Mark Sanford’s (R) poor relations with South Carolina’s Republican controlled General Assembly and with voters in the western regions of the state continue to harm his reelection campaign. In the most recent move, Republican leaders from the state senate have begun publicly defending the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, state Sen. Tommy Moore, from GOP attacks.

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The South Carolina Republican Party has enlisted Michael Jackson, Pete Townshend, and Debbie Harris to provide musical accompaniment to an online expose of gubernatorial candidate Tommy Moore’s (D) long Senate career that, get this, started in 1979.

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Democrats’ hopes for reclaiming the South Carolina governorship this cycle have always been a long shot, given the state’s conservatism. A new poll out from Rasmussen once again confirms that state Senator Tommy Moore (D) faces an uphill battle to Columbia.

Gov. Mark Sanford (R) leads Moore 51 to 39 percent and the poll found that a respectable 67 percent of respondents held a favorable view of Sanford, despite his frequent squabbles with the General Assembly (a supposed campaign issue).

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Oscar Lovelace, the upstart Republican challenger to South Carolina’s incumbent governor, Mark Sanford, managed to do better than expected in yesterday’s primary, indicating that the general election may be more competitive than previously assumed.

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Things appear not to be going too well on Election Day for South Carolina Republican governor hopeful Oscar Lovelace. In a press release put out this afternoon, his campaign reports that due to inclement weather caused by Tropical Storm Alberto Lovelace has cancelled his planned “Fly-Around” the state today.

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Two years on, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) still cannot escape the pigs. With less then a week till the primary, his Republican opponent Oscar Lovelace is campaining with PIGS today to highlight Sanford’s less then stellar relationship with the state’s General Assembly. Passion, Integrity, Goodwill and Servant Leadership, Lee Bandy reports for The State, will be flying across the state with Lovelace.

The stunt is a ploy on a now infamous episode in South Carolina political history.

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