SC Megathread 2020: Graham Crackers, Cunning-Ham Sandwiches and Duncan Donuts

[GeneralMacArthur]

Remember that South Carolina has some of the most stringent voter access laws in the country.  Absentee ballots must be signed by a witness, and there's no early voting.  Voter registration closed a month before election day.

[MRS DONNA SHALALA]

Remember that South Carolina has some of the most stringent voter access laws in the country.  Absentee ballots must be signed by a witness, and there's no early voting.  Voter registration closed a month before election day.

Isn't SC's absentee in-person voting essentially early voting?

[Rookie Yinzer]

Remember that South Carolina has some of the most stringent voter access laws in the country.  Absentee ballots must be signed by a witness, and there's no early voting.  Voter registration closed a month before election day.

Isn't SC's absentee in-person voting essentially early voting?

Yes.

[Gass3268]

Lindsey Graham keeps cutting ads for Harrison.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1316373104269160449?s=20

[Lognog]

Lindsey Graham keeps cutting ads for Harrison. Graham keeps lining Harrison's pockets

[tweet]

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Remember that South Carolina has some of the most stringent voter access laws in the country.  Absentee ballots must be signed by a witness, and there's no early voting.  Voter registration closed a month before election day.

Isn't SC's absentee in-person voting essentially early voting?

Yes, people are voting in person right now. But you do need a witness when you sign your mail-in ballot.

[ProgressiveModerate]

Remember that South Carolina has some of the most stringent voter access laws in the country.  Absentee ballots must be signed by a witness, and there's no early voting.  Voter registration closed a month before election day.

Does that mean someone has to watch you fill out your ballot and sign it? What if you're not married and have no friends?

Isn't SC's absentee in-person voting essentially early voting?

Yes, people are voting in person right now. But you do need a witness when you sign your mail-in ballot.

[VAR]

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1316453382270472192

[Blair]

Hilarous that Graham was so clearly hoping this hearing would save him yet he's managed to not only write some more ads for Harrison but also has given him another million dollars.

[DrScholl]

It won't be long before Graham is caught calling Harrison the N-word.

[Torrain]

Politico’s article about Graham’s segregation comment: https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/10/14/graham-clarifies-comments-segreation-429452?__twitter_impression=true

“It was with deep sarcasm that I suggested that some legislative body would want to yearn for the good old days of segregationism,” the senator said. “The point that I’m trying to make, there’s nobody in America in the legislative arena wanting to take us back to that dark period in American history and for my opponent to suggest that says far more about him than me.”

“I want to make sure that everybody in my state moves forward,” he told reporters, emphasizing that nearly a third of his constituents are Black. “And in terms of that statement, it blows my mind that any rational person could believe that about me.”

“Some of my best friends constituents are Black!”

Seriously, how do you run as a Senate candidate, in one of the most notorious former confederate states, against a POC, and still go ahead with a segregation quip?

[Indy Texas]

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1316453382270472192

How much of that was from individual small donors as opposed to the RNC and PACs?

[wbrocks67]

I'm really over GOP politicians backtracking and saying something "was a joke" or "was sarcasm" when it clearly wasn't

[Sirius_]

Remember that South Carolina has some of the most stringent voter access laws in the country.  Absentee ballots must be signed by a witness, and there's no early voting.  Voter registration closed a month before election day.

That is not true. Maybe it isn't available in every precinct, but that is not true.

[UWS]

No one should take lectures about race from a Democratic senate nominee like Jaime Harrison who supports Joe Biden for President, a man who repeatedly worked hand in hand with segregationists and Dixiecrats like Strom Thurmond who promoted Jim Crow laws; opposed school desegregation busing; wrote the 1994 crime bill that resulted to mass incarcerations of African-Americans; who said that any African-American voting Republican is not African-American. Meanwhile Graham made it clear that he's proud of the fact that an African-American like Tim Scott represents South Carolina to the Senate and that an Indian-American like Nikki Haley could have the opportunity to serve as Governor of South Carolina because that's the party of Lincoln that believes in equal rights for everyone regardless of race and ethnicity.

[Calthrina950]

No one should take lectures about race from a Democratic senate nominee like Jaime Harrison who supports Joe Biden for President, a man who repeatedly worked hand in hand with segregationists and Dixiecrats like Strom Thurmond who promoted Jim Crow laws; opposed school desegregation busing; wrote the 1994 crime bill that resulted to mass incarcerations of African-Americans; who said that any African-American voting Republican is not African-American. Meanwhile Graham made it clear that he's proud of the fact that an African-American like Tim Scott represents South Carolina to the Senate and that an Indian-American like Nikki Haley could have the opportunity to serve as Governor of South Carolina because that's the party of Lincoln that believes in equal rights for everyone regardless of race and ethnicity.

Republican President Pro Tempore Strom Thurmond?

Black Americans know Democrats are flawed historically and currently. They also know exactly what Republicans stand for and why the Republican Party makes it as hard as possible for them to vote. It must be exhausting constantly pretending you aren't the party of present day bigotry.

Thurmond switched parties in 1964, the same year that the Civil Rights Act was passed, and he endorsed Barry Goldwater-who voted against the Act-which helped Goldwater to carry South Carolina that year. Thurmond was also a staunch ally of both Nixon and Reagan, and he never apologized for his segregationist views-in contrast to other segregationists such as Robert Byrd and George Wallace.

[Coastal_Elite]

Speaking of Strom Thurmond, it would be poetic justice for Jaime Harrison to have his old seat.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Lindsey Graham keeps cutting ads for Harrison.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1316373104269160449?s=20

Is anyone going to fall for this?  What Graham was saying is that no one wants to go back there! 

[bagelman]

Noted ghoul Dianne Fienstein gives race to Graham on silver platter

https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1316808220476764160

https://twitter.com/BobbyBigWheel/status/1316830678064009218

Combine this with how much of an uphill battle the race was to begin with, and it's over. It was fun to dream, and it will be closer than usual, but the winner isn't in doubt.

[Storr]

Noted ghoul Dianne Fienstein gives race to Graham on silver platter

https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1316808220476764160

https://twitter.com/BobbyBigWheel/status/1316830678064009218

Combine this with how much of an uphill battle the race was to begin with, and it's over. It was fun to dream, and it will be closer than usual, but the winner isn't in doubt.

Why would voters in South Carolina who are considering Harrison care that Dianne Feinstein hugged Lindsey Graham?

[Bootes Void]

Noted ghoul Dianne Fienstein gives race to Graham on silver platter

https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1316808220476764160

https://twitter.com/BobbyBigWheel/status/1316830678064009218

Combine this with how much of an uphill battle the race was to begin with, and it's over. It was fun to dream, and it will be closer than usual, but the winner isn't in doubt.

Feinstein is probably hated by South Carolina conservatives(those who know Feinstein. Is). It's makes no difference

That being said these 85 year old dinosaurs need to go and bring fresh blood

[Calthrina950]

Noted ghoul Dianne Fienstein gives race to Graham on silver platter

https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1316808220476764160

https://twitter.com/BobbyBigWheel/status/1316830678064009218

Combine this with how much of an uphill battle the race was to begin with, and it's over. It was fun to dream, and it will be closer than usual, but the winner isn't in doubt.

Feinstein is probably hated by South Carolina conservatives(those who know Feinstein. Is). It's makes no difference

That being said these 85 year old dinosaurs need to go and bring fresh blood

Agreed, though sadly I suspect the only way Feinstein (and Grassley, and Leahy, and Inhofe, and Shelby, and Don Young in the House....) are going to be leaving Congress is if they are carried out in a gurney.

[Progressive Pessimist]

I'm really over GOP politicians backtracking and saying something "was a joke" or "was sarcasm" when it clearly wasn't

Should it really even be acceptable for politicians to joke or be sarcastic if that was even the case?

[DrScholl]

Lindsey Graham keeps cutting ads for Harrison.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1316373104269160449?s=20

Is anyone going to fall for this?  What Graham was saying is that no one wants to go back there! 

He's like these old southern women who are passive aggressive with their racism. He's in Strom Thurmond's old seat, so of course he's going to virtual signaling to the people in the state that are still fond of the good old days.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I'm really over GOP politicians backtracking and saying something "was a joke" or "was sarcasm" when it clearly wasn't

Should it really even be acceptable for politicians to joke or be sarcastic if that was even the case?

Yes?
They not robots.   People should be allowed to be interesting.