[Chancellor Palpatine]

Well, there would be some regional differences. I can guarantee that in my neck of the woods (and this state's entire congressional delegation is GOP, save for one Dem - and he's a blue dog) that crap would be roundly criticized.

[wimpycat]

Alex Sanders was a very likeable candidate, full of anecdotes and down-homeisms, but his politics were all wrong-pro-abortion, anti-death penalty, pro-gun-control (although he was a member of the NRA). He was a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans AND the NAACP, but it didn't matter what his politics were. It was Lindsey Graham's seat all along.

I knew Lindsey Graham was going to be SC's next Senator back in 1999, during the impeachment trial in the Senate.