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Conventional political wisdom says Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, a Charlestonian, Democrat, and sister of TV comedian Stephen Colbert, is more likely to ice skate in Charleston Harbor than win a seat in the House. Yet stranger things have happened in South Carolina.
Charleston, S.C., (click here) may have witnessed the beginning of the Civil War with the shots at Fort Sumter, but today's Charlestonians are among the most progressive residents in a state that has come to embody modern Republicanism.
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Jenny should have run. The glass ceiling worked for Nikki Haley. That campaign has to be met with ability though. Palin tried to be the Hillary wannabee and fell on her face. Once a redneck always a redneck and rednecks aren't electable, especially women.
By JONATHAN MARTIN
6/22/10 4:35 AM EDT
Jenny should have run. The glass ceiling worked for Nikki Haley. That campaign has to be met with ability though. Palin tried to be the Hillary wannabee and fell on her face. Once a redneck always a redneck and rednecks aren't electable, especially women.
By JONATHAN MARTIN
6/22/10 4:35 AM EDT
CONWAY, S.C. — Nikki Haley, (click here) the 38-year-old Indian-American political phenom who might be South Carolina’s next governor, downplays the two attributes that would make her different from her 115 predecessors.
When asked whether someone of her profile, the daughter of immigrants, could have been elected to statewide office when she was growing up here, she has a ready and artful answer.
“I think the timing is right, where people realize this is about issues,” Haley said in an interview. “It’s not about gender; it’s not about race.”
Yet the pink T-shirts some of her supporters wore Monday morning, a day before the Republican gubernatorial runoff, to a rally at a Main Street cafe here, tell a different story....
