[Theodore R.]

People who say "education" is the main issue will likely be for Tenenbaum because such voters believe that more spending is always the "solution" to educational defects.

[jmaroneps37]

Jim will win by the biggest margin a Republican has gotten in the South since Reconstruction.

[JohnnyZ]

Swing voters are mainly suburbanites who don’t identify with either political party. They are highly educated, tend to be economic conservatives Sounds like DeMint voters Also, they are disproportionately women, concentrated mostly in the Midlands. Sounds like Inez voters

[SC Swamp Fox]

SC Ping

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[SC Swamp Fox]

“The swing vote is critical,” Francis Marion University political scientist Neal Thigpen says. “You’ve got to have them. They hold the balance of power.”

This same guy is quoted in almost every article The State does on political matters. Don't any of the other state universities have Poli-Sci departments?

It wouldn't be so bad if he had something meaningful to say. I am sure it's a real shock to us that the swing voters, those that don't identify themselves as either rats or republicans, are important.

Hey, Neal! What about the base? What happens if either party's base stays home? Do you think John F'n Kerry or Inez Tenenbaum are going to really motivate the rat base?

[wardaddy]

Tenebaum?

The movie or the song one?

[Voter 2004]

Inez Tennenbaum is the true conservative in that she believes that the government should stay out of people's private lives. And nothing is more private than a woman's right to decide whether and when to bear children, free from the heavy hand of government.

DeMint on the other hand advocates the ultimate type of government intrusion by trying to strip away a woman's most basic right to reproductive freedom. People in South Carolina don't like the idea of their rights being taken away which is exactly what DeMint wants to do by forcing women to risk their lives in filthy, back alley abortions because he wants to outlaw a woman's right to choose safe, legal reproductive services. DeMint's hypocrisy is glaring in that he wants the government to interfere with womens' wombs by outlawing our most basic right to receive safe, medical abortion services but yet claims to advocate "limited government". It is truly sickening by how he wants the government to interfere with our private lives like this. This is the ultimate example of government intrusion into people's private lives. DeMint is no conservative because of his radical views on this issue.

Furthermore, Inez Tennenbaum is the "true" conservative because she advocates the death penalty for evil murderers and opposes same sex-marriage unlike DeMint's flip-flops on true "conservatism" (by how he opposes reproductive choice). Additionally, the fact that Inez Tennenbaum has accomplished so much in improving South Carolina's education system through her work as superintendent is something that South Carolinians truly value. She is highly respected statewide because of her fantastic accomplishments. Ms. Tennenbaum will win this race because South Carolinians understand that she is more in tune with their practical everyday needs and values than the alternative.