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Hollings is VERY beatable. They wouldn't be talking about running Gilda Cobb-Hunter if he wasn't. Cobb-Hunter is a fairly obscure state legislator, but she's got the proper, uh, ethnic qualifications. As a black female in a heavily black state, she can play the victim card to the hilt--every time the GOP challenger gets the least bit rough with her, she can play the race card like Al Sharpton, AND the sex card, a la Hillary with Rick Lazio. She'd lock down 90% of the black vote and probably get enough guilty white carpetbagger liberals to have a chance at winning. It's a semi-desperate strategy, but the Rats are getting fairly desperate down here.

Inez Tenenbaum, maybe. She was about the only Democratic officeholder to survive the Mark Sanford-led GOP tidalwave in 2002 and is thought to be doing a decent job as Superintendent of Education.

I don't think a white male Democrat has any chance of winning statewide in SC right now. Lindsay Graham proved that by his win of Strom's seat.

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If the 'Rats pull that strategy with Cobb-Hunter, it will only blow up in their faces. Even with some White liberal voters, they don't like having the race card being rammed down their throats so blatantly (they'd just end up sitting out the election). As was said, the 'Rats have a big problem that they no longer have much of an appeal to White voters in places like SC (despite '98, which was a fluke election/backlash against David Beasley). The Black voter turnout was even up last November, and it got them bubkas. The GOP similarly needs to take their message to the Black community and ask them if they want to continue to put all their eggs in one political basket and become more and more irrelevent as the GOP grows in strength. We shouldn't be afraid to do it, since we have nothing to lose and the Black community has everything to gain.