Haley, Scott win SC runoff for GOP nominations

[1776Forever]

Source: AP

By LIZ SIDOTI and JIM DAVENPORT, Associated Press Writers Liz Sidoti And Jim Davenport, Associated Press Writers – 7 mins ago
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Nikki Haley, an Indian-American woman, handily won the Republican nomination for governor and Tim Scott, a black lawmaker, grabbed the GOP nod for a House seat in South Carolina primary runoffs Tuesday, a fresh sign of racial progress in the Deep South and the GOP.

Six-term Republican Rep. Bob Inglis fell to prosecutor Trey Gowdy, making him the 5th incumbent House or Senate lawmaker to lose this year.

In North Carolina, Secretary of State Elaine Marshall overcame a challenge from state Sen. Cal Cunningham, winning the Democratic nomination to challenge GOP Sen. Richard Burr in the fall.

Voters in Utah and Mississippi also decided on their final nominees, just over four months before November balloting.

Tuesday's runoffs and primaries played out across a handful of states, the latest cluster of contests to determine matchups for the midterm congressional elections. Already, 2010 is shaping up to be an anti-establishment year with angry voters casting ballots against candidates with ties to Washington and the political parties.


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[DemoTex]

1. Bob Inglis was very right-wing, but not enough so.

Trey Gowdy is even more right-wing than Inglis. That is my Congressional district.

[1776Forever]

2. Yep: "big win for the Tea Party-style right and a defeat for GOP moderation"

GOP Rep. Bob Inglis Goes Down Hard In Primary -- For The Crime Of Moderation
Eric Kleefeld | June 22, 2010, 8:53PM

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/trey-gowdy/

Another incumbent member of Congress has gone down in defeat in their primary -- and in this case, it's a big win for the Tea Party-style right and a defeat for GOP moderation, with Rep. Bob Inglis losing to Spartanburg County Solicitor Trey Gowdy.

With 75% of precincts reporting, Gowdy leads Inglis by a whopping 73%-27%. In the first-round primary two weeks ago, Gowdy had actually come in first place with 39%, and Inglis was behind at 28% -- practically the death-knell for the incumbent. In the home stretch of the primary, Inglis appeared on the Colbert Report, in an interview making fun of his own dire straits, and even included a joke about the Birthers.

Inglis had been targeted for defeat by the right, due his various heresies from core conservative doctrines: He has called for action on climate change, told Tea Partiers to "turn Glenn Beck off," and he called upon fellow South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson to apologize for yelling "You lie" at President Obama during that famous addresses to Congress in September 2009. Combine that with a general anti-incumbent, anti-Washington mood in the country, and you have one defeated Congressman.

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Another Tea Party extremist to steer the GOP into the pit.