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If members of the South Carolina arm of the Tea Party were prepared to vote in a bloc, with nearly half of the state’s Republicans identifying with the movement, the GOP nomination would ...

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Presidential politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum — as evidenced by the constant ebb and flow at the top of the GOP race for the White House. And nothing creates a vacuum like a se...

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Newt Gingrich has surged past Republican presidential contenders, with at least one-third of those surveyed over the week supporting the former House Speaker, according to two new polls r...

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, whose presidential candidacy has taken on increasingly worse odds as her poll numbers dip, has turned her S.C. campaign over to a lawmaker best-known for joking abo...

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On a day when GOP presidential canididates criss-crossed South Carolina prior to debating at Wofford College, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's meteoric rise through the ranks of the R...

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SPARTANBURG — Saturday night's debate at Wofford College showed America that while the eight Republican candidates for president may be likeminded in their aversion to President Barack Ob...

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If gaining attention is half the battle for the Occupy movement, Thursday’s takeover of a Michele Bachmann event in Mount Pleasant could be deemed a huge success by its organizers. T...

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Occupy Charleston protesters say Michele Bachmann and other presidential candidates spread their message with the help of massive political donations from big business and the nation's we...