This same scene is playing out in other states the GOP won in 2010. WI, OH, FL, etc... IMHO these governors need to take a more measured approach. Not just come in and try to get it all done in one big bite.
Sarah Palin saved her, but she then let herself be co-opted by the GOP-E, the very same people who helped destroy Palin.
In SC the political battles aren’t so much Republican vs. Democrat or even conservative vs. liberal, they’re executive vs. legislative. The governor’s office is very weak (as Fund states) and the General Assembly has always been the center of power, even to the point that it took until the 1970s to stop the GA from having iron control over essentially county/city/town-level decisions.
Mark Sanford shot to stardom (and remains fairly popular there) because he went head-on with the good-ol’-boy contingent of the GOP in the General Assembly on their wasteful pork-barrel spending...and they got their revenge when the state GOP establishment tipped reporters that his story about “hiking the Appalachian Trail” was so much BS and that he’d gone to Argentina. It was that same contingent that spread the false adultery stories about Haley to try and derail her.
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Geez has anyone noticed that Sarah and Nikki fought against their own party leaders? That may bring down your numbers, but wait till some of the results start turning positive - then landslide relection. The same can be said for Walker in Wisconsin. He lower property taxes - everyone will notice even members of a union. School districts are hiring, that means more than a few teachers can vote in secret to keep their jobs.
Nikki Haley’s Rough Start (Her approval ratings have slumped since being sworn in as SC governor)I stopped caring when she endorsed Romney.
Not sure I’d trust a Winthrop Univ poll.
You could pave the university parking lots with the all of the Obama stickers stuck on student AND faculty cars.
Romney PAC for Nikki...$36,000.00