{"id":18699,"date":"2013-05-07T21:27:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T01:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18699"},"modified":"2013-05-07T21:27:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T01:27:18","slug":"mark-sanford-has-won-the-south-carolina-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18699","title":{"rendered":"Mark Sanford Has Won The South Carolina Special Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight the Washington Post<\/a> is reporting that former South Carolina Governor<\/a> Mark Sanford<\/a> has been elected to the House of Representatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Mitt Romney<\/a> won this district by 18 points last fall, but Sanford\u2019s personal history made the seat competitive. Democrats<\/a> poured money into the race<\/a>\u00a0while national Republicans<\/a> abandoned their candidate,\u00a0giving Colbert Busch a 5-to-1 advantage in outside spending.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If the American people<\/a> can forgive Bill Clinton<\/a> for his indiscretions, I guess they can forgive Mark Sanford for his. There are two things in this election that bode well for the Republicans in 2014–the amount of money poured into the coffers of Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch did not make a difference, and a seriously flawed candidate whose positions on issues are in line with the voters can win an election despite his flaws.<\/p>\n

As the House of Representatives considers the immigration bill that the Senate<\/a> will hand them in the near future, they would do well to keep this election in mind–issues won–money did not.<\/p>\n

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Tonight the Washington Post is reporting that former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has been elected to the House of Representatives. The article reports: Mitt Romney won this district by 18 points last fall, but Sanford\u2019s personal history made the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3174,219,451,5518,352,365,448,1134],"class_list":["post-18699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-clinton","tag-democratic","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-mark-sanford","tag-mitt-romney","tag-republicans","tag-south-carolina","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18701,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18699\/revisions\/18701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}