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COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Donald Trump defeated GOP rival Nikki Haley in the South Carolina primary Saturday night, securing yet another win for the former president. The race was called almost immediately after the polls closed at 7 p.m., with Trump securing all 29 winner-take-all state delegates. With some 65 percent of the vote in, Trump was up by roughly 20 points. “This was a little sooner than we anticipated. And even a bigger win than we anticipated,” Trump said to applause on stage at the state fairgrounds in Columbia moments after the victory. “I have never seen the Republican...

© 2010 jbjd James E. Clyburn (D-SC) is the only Congressman citizens of the Palmetto State's Sixth Congressional District have known since a contentious re-apportionment created the oddly shaped majority minority district in 1992. Here's how he describes the Sixth on his Congressional web site. "The Sixth District contains five of the state’s six poorest counties and has the state’s lowest per capita income...home to inadequate public schools, high unemployment rates, widespread poverty and alarming rates of strokes, diabetes, and prostate cancer. Textile plants have closed... tobacco farmers ...have seen their livelihood evaporate... The Sixth has suffered from decades of...

Article is from June, but quite relevant with the specualtion now turning to possibilities for 2008. Thoroughly enjoyed this one. COLUMBIA, S.C. — For someone who battles big government all day long, Mark Sanford is incredibly relaxed. After locking horns with lawmakers, the Palmetto State's Republican governor spent a recent evening sipping a Bud Light and chatting in a Polo shirt and khakis. As befits this 44-year-old who runs and swims daily, the Dave Matthews Band plays quietly on his sound system. "We've saved 50 percent on headcount at the Governor's Mansion and 45 percent on operating expenses," Sanford says....