I try to keep up with the political goings-on in my home state of South Carolina. (Don’t get me started about that sickening display of Mark Sanford’s, but I do have a soft spot for another prominent fellow in ol’ SC who speaks his mind…) Here’s the latest from The Palmetto Scoop…
CHEROKEE COUNTY VOTERS ELECT REPUBLICAN IN HEAVILY DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT
It was the only election in America Tuesday night. And it gave Republicans one final win this year in the growing referendum against Barack Obama’s presidency.
Voters in Cherokee County elected a Republican to a county council seat never before held by the GOP.
Republican Tracy McDaniel crushed Democrat Thomas Moss in county council district seven with a stunning 61.2 percent of the vote.
“I’ll always do my best to study the issues, obtain the facts and make decisions on what is best for our citizens,” McDaniel told the Spartanburg Herald Journal prior to the election. “I know if we work together, we can make a difference for Cherokee County.”
Democrat James Batchler, who died in August, had held the seat for 40 years.
On the surface, McDaniel’s election may not seem significant. But a Republican win in a heavily Democratic district in South Carolina is symptomatic of eroding support for Obama and Democrats.
In November, voters in Virginia and New Jersey passed a similar anti-Obama referendum by electing Republican governors in states carried by the president during last year’s election.
I may be wrong. (It’s rare, but has happened before.) Methinks that the ‘Dems’ are going to have their hands full next year unless some freakin’ miracle occurs. This story doesn’t seem like much to most of you, I know, but you would have to understand the area. Republicans in Cherokee County have always been considered as being from the wrong side of the tracks.
Add one to the RIGHT side!
Bull, out. ![]()











































