DSCC Seems to be Playing with South Carolina

[Lunar]

Best summary of all of the details, although from a Democratic partisan perspective:
http://senateguru.com/diary/775/scsen-introducing-brad-hutto

Remember too that the DSCC is running ads right now attacking Demint (included in above link), so they seem to be playing with this race in the early stages.

From more neutral sources:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/senate/demint-to-face-a-democratic-ch.html
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/jul/01/hutto_may_challenge_demint87739/

[Lunar]

I would disagree that it's a scare tactic - scaring who? - Demint already has plenty of money.  I think it's an experiment, quite unlikely to be successful, but possibly worth the money at this stage, to see if any headway can be made into making this a legitimate race.  Every cycle has your races which are surprisingly close.  And besides, the more states you can tell your donors that you're on the offense against, especially against politicians they detest -- the more money you can milk out of them for the DSCC.

And again, the more states that are on the offensive playing field, the more opportunities one has to have lightning strike, "focusing" probably isn't the best strategy at all.

I mean, it's a completely empty threat at this point.  

[Lunar]

Another thing to consider:  sometimes running a losing campaign, as long as it's credible or surpasses expectations, can be enough of a platform to run for another statewide office later, certainly an incentive for Hutto