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The Four Freshmen

The Four Freshmen

December 01, 2011 By Dan Hoover
The Four Freshmen are just about the biggest thing since, well, The Four Freshmen, a renowned 1950s vocal group.
Primary Players

Primary Players

November 01, 2011 By Dan Hoover
The Republican governor from Texas had everything going for him. The country was in an economic malaise and Americans were questioning whether the future would be as good as the past. 
Gov. Haley Talks Development
Nikki Haley came in last January as the state’s second consecutive reform-minded governor, touting an agenda focusing on fiscal restraint – restructuring South Carolina’s unwieldy, 19th-century, legislative-centric, often dysfunctional government and opening its arcane rituals and procedures to public scrutiny. 
Shift in Political Power

Shift in Political Power

October 01, 2011 By Dan Hoover
If you want to be somebody in South Carolina government and politics, you’d better be popular in the Upstate because it provides four of every 10 votes cast in the only elections that seem to count these days, Republican primaries. 
Unsustainable?

Unsustainable?

September 01, 2011 By Dan Hoover
The state’s school districts account for nearly half of the debt, approximately $5 billion.
SC's Female Representation
Just when you thought there couldn’t be another list where South Carolina is, wait for it, flat-out, dead last. Alas, we hoped too soon.
Whose Job is Tougher?
South Carolina's two major political parties have taken on new — and very different — leaders at an unquestionably dicey time for both organizations. Each selection suggests a break from the recent past, although more for the state Republican Party than for the Democratic.
The Role of the Convention
The 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte? There's a message there. It signals that Obama plans to fight to retain the electoral votes of North Carolina, the nation's 10th largest state, and, by extension, Virginia and Florida.
The Arrival of the Tea Party
In the spring of 2008, in Greenville and Spartanburg counties, a carload of Republican legislative incumbents was swept out of office or rejected. The following spring, the GOP chairmen in those counties were ousted...The Tea Party had arrived...
Redrawing the Lines

Redrawing the Lines

April 01, 2011 By Dan Hoover
With the 2010 U.S. Census showing that SC's overall decennial growth topped 660,000 for a total of more than 4.6 million people, qualifying it for a seventh congressional seat, the 4th is unlikely to remain in its present whole-county Greenville-Spartanburg-Union form.
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