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FINALLY, the people in South Carolina are awakening to the fact our values are not being represented by Lindsay Graham.

McAlester contract an eye-opener Oklahoman Editorial IF NOTHING else, the mess involving McAlester's longtime city manager should grab the attention of municipal officials across the state. Randy Green has spent 24 years as city manager. Such longevity in that position is rare, regardless of locale, but the contract he enjoyed clearly made it worthwhile. His most-recent contract with the city, signed in September 2003, gives him an annual salary of $90,000, plus a 7 percent annual increase that can be converted into leave days. In addition, he receives a $700-per-month car allowance. He gets a dozen sick days, 13 paid...

• Field organization. Vice-President Al Gore may have won the 2000 New Hampshire primary — and subsequent primaries, which fed on the New Hampshire–generated momentum — thanks to a traffic jam. At least that’s what many Democratic operatives with experience in New Hampshire seem to think. Today, when people look back at the 2000 Democratic-primary season, the prevailing memory is of Gore trouncing former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley. But he beat Bradley in New Hampshire by just four points, a relatively narrow margin of 6395 votes. The bulk of these votes — more than 3000 — came from Hillsborough...

The Boston Phoenix out yesterday carries a dispatch by Seth Gitell that includes the following anecdote about the 2000 Democratic primary in New Hampshire. “Gore operatives had access to exit polls showing the vice president being defeated by Bradley. They also learned that while Democratic voters were voting in large numbers for Gore, independents, many of them upscale suburban voters, were voting for Bradley’s sophisticated brand of liberalism.” This they knew by early afternoon. Their solution? “The Gore team organized a caravan to clog highway I-93 with traffic so as to discourage potential Bradley voters from getting to the polls.”...