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He isn’t going to avoid the run off, and that’s when his real race begins. He is polling between 35-40%, well short of the 50%+1 needed. Which means, roughly 60% are voting against him.
And once the teabagger support coalesces around just one candidate instead of many, he is going to be in trouble. His hope is that a short campaign with low turn out, that his name recognition carries him over the finish line.
He would blow a goat to get re-elected.
I’ve quoted HL Mencken many times: A pol is a creature who would endorse something as repulsive as cannibalism if he had a constituency that practiced it. He said the pol would serve missionaries for dinner.
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Anyone who pays attention as an “outside observer” to the politics around this country knows exactly what graham is and how he works. Just a shame the people of SC are so easily influenced.
That’s all you really needed to say, IMHO.
Mr. Witherspoon is Captain Obvious, but I feel his pain. Lord knows as a progressive that I’ve been lied to repeatedly by so called Democrats who run progressive leaning campaigns but govern as conservatives.
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