Word: palmettos
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...Gingrich's Contract with America. A former Air Force lawyer, Graham drew national attention in 1998 as one of the managers of the House's impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Still, in 2000, he bucked the GOP establishment's pick of George W. Bush and backed McCain in the Palmetto State primary. After Graham won his Senate seat in 2002, he and McCain became close. The Arizona senator, 73, often says Graham, 54, is like a son to him, and perhaps a little of McCain's maverickness rubbed...
Less than six months after South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford copped to conducting an extramarital affair in a tearful press conference, his estranged wife has formally called it quits. Jenny Sanford, a high-powered investment banker before becoming the Palmetto State's First Lady, announced on Dec. 11 that she was filing for divorce after 20 years of marriage. "This came after many unsuccessful efforts at reconciliation, yet I am still dedicated to keeping the process that lies ahead peaceful for our family," she said in a statement. The split doesn't come as a surprise: the former Lazard bigwig...
...South Carolina were required by law to use minibottles of booze to mix drinks, lending the state's taverns a reputation for making waste - and for making customers wasted. (Unlike most pubs, which use jiggers to carefully measure how much liquor goes into each drink, mixologists in the Palmetto State nonchalantly poured all 1.7 oz. of a minibottle into each and every cocktail...
...election, at polling sites like the Coral Reef public-library branch in the Miami suburb of Palmetto Bay, the early voter tended to be an elderly white Republican male. Four years later, the early voter enduring the long lines that snake around the Coral Reef branch is more apt to be a younger, female, African-American Democrat, like Tonia Birgin, 34, a hospital ultrasound technician. "This being Florida, you never know what's going to happen with an election," says Birgin, holding an umbrella to shield her from the midday tropical sun during a two-hour wait this week outside...
...South Carolina State Senator David Thomas, a Republican, publicly condemned the campaign after reading about it on The Palmetto Scoop, a South Carolina political blog. He also called for an audit of the tourism department's advertising budget, which in 2008 will run to approximately $10 million...