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With her victory, state Rep. Haley has moved one step closer to becoming the first female governor in the conservative-leaning state.
Labor Day is past and the race for South Carolina governor is heating up.
There are only two months left until South Carolina voters go to the polls, and the state's election officials want to make sure everyone who is eligible gets registered.
The man who shocked the political world by becoming a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate has been accused of using anti-gay and racial slurs.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Vincent Sheheen says he and Republican Nikki Haley should meet for five debates in their South Carolina campaign.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn of South Carolina says he will not be voting for his party's nominee for U.S. Senate because of a pending felony indictment.
Longshot U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene was kicked out of a South Carolina restaurant after police say a woman accompanying him got into a fight with people eating there.
South Carolina's Republican gubernatorial nominee is looking to bolster her key issue of government transparency by releasing her legislative e-mails.
Another candidate has entered the race in South Carolina's 1st Congressional District, meaning voters will have seven choices in the November election.
Republican nominee for South Carolina governor, Nikki Haley, is making a stop in Charleston Thursday afternoon.
U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Green has been indicted by a Richland County grand jury Friday on two charges, according to officials.
Despite gaining national attention as South Carolina's mystery politician, Democrat Alvin Greene is trailing his republican challenger by more than 40 points in a new Rasmussen Reports poll.
A new Rasmussen Reports poll has found Republican Nikki Haley holding a strong double-digit lead over her democratic opponent in the race to become South Carolina's next governor.
Democratic US senate candidate Alvin Greene has made a change in his campaign by hiring a new advisor.
An unemployed military vet from Manning claims he has the quick fix to a number of problems plaguing South Carolina, and now a new rap video is illustrating exactly how he's going to it.
South Carolina legislators are debating 107 vetoes to the state budget that could nearly shut down some agencies and slash programs.
Associated Press - July 23, 2010 3:35 PM ET COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - While her bid has altered the face of South Carolina politics, GOP governor candidate Nikki Haley has also changed her stance...
Associated Press - July 22, 2010 11:25 AM ET COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina's next treasurer says no statewide officer should drive in a taxpayer-funded ride.
Associated Press - July 21, 2010 12:45 PM ET COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Republican gubernatorial nominee Nikki Haley has pulled an online ad that used a popular Black Eyed Peas song without...
Associated Press - July 20, 2010 5:45 PM ET COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina Democratic gubernatorial candidate Vincent Sheheen has released 10 years of income tax records and challenged...
Associated Press - July 20, 2010 5:35 PM ET RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that kept a South Carolina Green Party candidate off the general election...
Associated Press - July 16, 2010 10:45 AM ET COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina's four Republican candidates for lieutenant governor spent a combined $3 million on their quest for a job that...
Sources claim agents with the FBI and IRS have initiated an investigation into campaign contributions connected to local and state candidates in last November's election.
A minor league baseball team in South Carolina is making a reality out of U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene's idea to spur economic growth by creating action figures of himself.
Associated Press - July 15, 2010 12:15 PM ET COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina Republican gubernatorial nominee Nikki Haley is meeting with business leaders in Columbia, a week after calling...
Associated Press - July 14, 2010 11:55 AM ET ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden will attend a fundraiser in Columbia next week for South Carolina's longest-serving...
South Carolina's junior U.S. Senator says he has no plans to challenge Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky as leader of Senate Republicans.
Alvin Greene, the unexpected, unemployed and underdog South Carolina Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, is starting to campaign a little harder.
U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene will face no state charges over the unemployed veteran's $10,440 filing fee in South Carolina's Democratic primary, the state's top police officer said Friday.
Alvin Greene was a quiet, withdrawn high school student who rarely took chances or put himself in uncomfortable situations. Now, the 32-year-old unemployed military veteran is running against one of South Carolina's most powerful senators.
Democrat Linda Ketner announced Monday she would not pursue an independent campaign for the U.S. Senate, citing a lack of time and resources for her decision.
Two Republican nominees for high state offices should be excluded from the Nov. 2 general election ballot because they failed to meet a filing deadline, a South Carolina paralegal student said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
The South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) is trying to determine how U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene got the money to pay his filing fee in the Democratic primary.
State Sen. Vincent Sheheen says the race for South Carolina governor has officially begun.
Alan Wilson defeated Leighton Lord Tuesday night in the heated Republican race for attorney general.
The two South Carolina Republicans seeking to take on House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn are heading to a recount.
The president of a private Christian college is the Republican nominee to lead South Carolina's public schools.
Unofficial election results in Horry County have pegged Paul Price as the winner of Tuesday's run-off for the Horry County Council District 5 seat.
Florence County councilman Ken Ard has won the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in South Carolina.
Rep. Tim Scott (R-Charleston) has defeated Charleston County Councilman Paul Thurmond Tuesday in South Carolina's 1st Congressional District run-off.
Incumbent Ed Robinson has been declared the winner of a run-off election for the District 2 seat on the Florence City Council.
Voter turnout for the runoff in is expected to be down in Horry County from the primaries two weeks ago as the number of voters now eligible to cast their ballots has been limited.
Election cycles rife with ambiguous, difficult-to-prove claims and damning personal attacks may make for good entertainment, but it fails to inform the voters, says a communications professor and political analyst from the College of Charleston.
U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett's bid for governor in Tuesday's GOP runoff is a longshot fight to keep his reputation intact. And it's a gamble that everything possible will go right for him and everything will go wrong for state Rep. Nikki Haley.
The Republican race for attorney general between candidates Leighton Lord and Alan Wilson is close, and just took a nasty turn. A new ad has been released which blasts Wilson for his credentials.
South Carolina voters will decide Tuesday whether Republicans have their first woman nominee for governor as eight statewide candidates and eight U.S. House candidates head into a primary runoff election that could change the face of the state GOP.
Since he won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, there have been a lot of questions about Alvin Greene. Among them, just how did he do it with no website, campaign materials or campaign team?
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney came to the Holy City Friday, supporting candidate for Governor Nikki Haley.
Two Republican 1st Congressional District candidates stepped into the political spotlight in Myrtle Beach Thursday, as part of a last-ditch effort to sway voters in next Tuesday's run-off election.
Haley and Barrett sit across from moderator Ben HooverSouth Carolina gubernatorial candidates Nikki Haley and Gresham Barrett are questioning each others' votes on spending and bailout legislation in their last debates before Tuesday's runoff election.
Challenger Vic Rawl speaks after the hearingSouth Carolina Democratic Party officials have upheld a surprising U.S. Senate primary win by an unemployed military veteran, nixing a protest lodged by their favored candidate that could have required a new vote.
The state's Democratic Executive Board Thursday decided there was not enough evidence to overthrow the primary election victory of Alvin Greene and force a second primary against Vic Rawl.
South Carolina's Democrats are gathering Thursday to decide whether to overturn the results of the primary election in which an unemployed, unknown military veteran won the nomination for U.S. Senate.
The South Carolina House has upheld more than 50 vetoes that will lead to hundreds of layoffs.
South Carolina Republican gubernatorial hopefuls U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett and state Rep. Nikki Haley will discuss issues in the only scheduled broadcast debates of the runoff campaign.
With less than a week to go before the runoff vote, Republicans Alan Wilson and Leighton Lord put their differences on air in Columbia.
Officials in Horry County are busily preparing to reopen a handful of voting polls for Tuesday's local and state run-off elections.
The Republican candidates for the 1st District Congressional seat got into verbal fisticuffs in a televised debate Tuesday as Tim Scott and Paul Thurmond tried to convince voters of their strengths while fighting off their opponent's claims of being career politicians.
The South Carolina House approved a compromise Tuesday that would require voters to show a photo ID at the polls and allow limited early voting, while senators balked at giving in to House GOP demands.
The Lexington County senator who took heat for using a racial slur to describe President Barack Obama and fellow legislator Nikki Haley defended himself during a State House vote Tuesday.
Comedian and television host Jon Stewart has put South Carolina politics on the national stage again with his Monday night opening to The Daily Show.
A watchdog group wants South Carolina's top prosecutor to investigate whether someone gave money to the unemployed, unknown man who won the Democratic U.S. Senate primary.
A new Rasmussen poll released Tuesday shows Republican incumbent Jim DeMint outdistancing his unknown, unemployed opponent by more than 30 points.
South Carolina legislators will be back at their desks to decide the fate of 107 budget vetoes.
A U.S. Senate candidate asked for a new Democratic primary Monday after he lost last week to an unemployed military veteran who raised no money and had no signs and no ads.
A Rasmussen poll released Monday shows both GOP gubernatorial candidates pulling sizeable leads against November's Democratic rival.
Two South Carolina 1st Congressional District run-off candidates will be heading to the Grand Strand this week to debate a number of hot-button issues affecting state and local voters.
A polling information center has concluded the surprise primary victory for Alvin Greene was not a GOP plot, but a completely random outcome based on an election in which both candidates were unknown.
The No. 3 Democrat in the House of Representatives wants federal authorities to investigate how an unemployed South Carolina veteran won the state's Democratic primary for US Senate. EXTRA: See Greene's SC ETV interview; hear Clyburn's conference call.
As if a pending felony charge and a state party asking for his withdrawal isn't enough, now South Carolina's surprise nominee will likely have to hear the words of his accuser throughout the campaign season. EXTRA: See Greene's arrest warrant and RAW video with Greene.
In his final attempt to influence state spending, term-limited South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he's cutting more than $300 million from the Legislature's nearly $5 billion state budget to prepare for next year's "financial tsunami."
Alvin M. Greene (Courtesy : Richland County)South Carolina's Democratic Party has asked its own Senate nominee to withdraw after learning the man has been charged with a felony, but the newly minted candidate say he won't budge.
In an election year filled with female candidates, Tuesday turned out to be a big night as two businesswomen captured the Republican nominations for Senate and governor in California, a female state lawmaker prevailed in the GOP Senate primary in Nevada and a South Carolina legislator brushed aside allegations of infidelity to grab the commanding spot in the GOP gubernatorial runoff.
The news of Rep. Nikki Haley weathering claims of an affair with to men to advance to a GOP runoff for governor made headlines across the country Wednesday.
South Carolina's Nikki Haley entered a runoff for the Republican gubernatorial primary with a substantial edge over her GOP rival, deflecting attacks on her marriage and her ethnicity using an antiestablishment message that resonated with the state's voters.
Tom Rice has successfully campaigned his way to win the Republican nomination for Horry County's top political spot Tuesday night.
State Rep. Thad Viers (R-Horry County) is heading back to Columbia, following a successful campaign to reclaim the District 68 seat in the South Carolina House of Representatives.
Florence City Council District 2 incumbent Ed Robinson is apparently heading to a run-off election, according to the last results released by the Florence County Election Commission.
Two republican hopefuls for South Carolinas' Lieutenant Governor's race will face each other in a runoff election to see who gets the nomination.
The Horry County Council District 8 incumbent Carl Schwartzkopf held onto his council seat.
Horry County Councilman Al Allen will be returning to his seat on the Horry County Council after sweeping Tuesday's District 11 election.
A college president and a homeschooling mother will face off in a Republican runoff for the chance to lead South Carolina's public schools.
The Horry County Council District 5 seat will head to a runoff election between two Republicans.
A former federal education official has won the Democratic nomination to be South Carolina's superintendent of education. Republicans will need a runoff to choose their nominee.
South Carolina's lone black Republican state representative is heading to a GOP runoff against the son of one of the state's most noted politicians to fill an open coastal congressional seat.
An Army reservist and a county councilman are heading to a Republican runoff in the lieutenant governor's race.
Ken Ard, GOP, advanced to runoff Lieutenant Governor, South Carolina.
Two Columbia attorneys are headed to a runoff in the race to become South Carolina's next attorney general.
Bill Connor, GOP, advanced to runoff Lieutenant Governor, South Carolina.
Political newcomer Curits Loftis has defeated the incumbent South Carolina treasurer in a testy Republican primary.
South Carolina voters on Tuesday were whittling down a field of seven candidates vying to succeed term-limited Gov. Mark Sanford, likely setting up a runoff in a Republican race marred by two men claiming physical relationships with GOP front-runner Nikki Haley.
Republican Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom easily won the Republican primary Tuesday in his bid for a third term.
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, a tea party favorite who has become something of a conservative kingmaker, coasted to a GOP primary win Tuesday against a little-known challenger who used to be a Democrat.
South Carolina voters on Tuesday were whittling down a field of seven candidates vying to succeed term-limited Gov. Mark Sanford, likely setting up a runoff in a Republican race marred by two men claiming physical relationships with GOP front-runner Nikki Haley.
Alvin Greene, Dem, nominated U.S. Senate, South Carolina.
Voters in South Carolina's Republican primary voiced their anger Tuesday over the new federal health care law and high state government spending.
Bill Taylor, GOP, nominated State House, District 86, South Carolina.
A FedEx pilot and former Air Force captain has won the Democratic nomination to fill an open congressional seat in South Carolina's 3rd District.
Election officials say Horry County's turnout in the primary election appears to be low, even with key issues at stake.
Nikki Haley has been a representative of District 87 since 2004 when she defeated an incumbent as a virtual unknown.
Dr. Morgan Bruce Reeves is the South Carolina Green Party's nominee for governor.
Vincent Sheheen has represented Chesterfield, Kershaw and Lancaster Counties in the state senate since 2004.
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