The powers-that-be have (in perhaps an overt act of desperation) allowed me to begin writing a periodic political column. In the course of any given week, I attend a number of events and conduct a number of interviews that never make it into “official” editorials, simply because they don’t warrant the newspaper’s taking an “official” position on them. But they still represent other people’s legitimate opinions, so I hope a column might give them some audience – after all, that’s why they call and invite me.
My column won’t have a regular run date; it’ll be kind of catch-as-catch can, which somewhat reflects the state of the industry these days. It’ll be more observational than ideological, and I hope it’s better than nothing.
It was a rule begging to be broken:
each office-seeking Democrat had four minutes to explain to a crowded
I wasn't keeping time, so I don't
know if anyone actually kept it to four minutes – but it was striking how
quickly contrasts emerged between the four candidates for the Democratic
nomination. Unlike the top-heavy Republican field (which includes two statewide
officers and a Congressman), most of the Democrats are new names for most S.C.
voters, giving them the added hurdle of forging an identity as they pitch their
ideas.
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