PS: I'm glad to see their having some fun over there still, with Mr. Binface:

His other policy pledges included:

returning 20,001 police officers to the street, one more than the Conservative pledge to add 20,000 more police officers
nationalising model railways
holding a referendum on holding a second referendum on the United Kingdom's membership in the European Union
allowing any Czechs on the Irish border to remain, a reference to the Brexit and the Irish border controversy
nationalising Adele
abolishing the House of Lords;
giving free broadband to everyone
stopping the sale of arms to repressive regimes
making Piers Morgan zero emissions by 2030
renaming London Bridge to "Phoebe Waller-Bridge"
introducing a minimum voting age of 16 and a maximum of 80
sending £1 trillion a week to the NHS
proroguing Jacob Rees-Mogg (I don't know what this means at all.)
banishing Katie Hopkins to the Phantom Zone
moving the hand dryer in the men's toilet at the Crown and Treaty pub, Uxbridge, to a more sensible position

PS: That those 4 polls are so far apart tells you how inaccurate the process is - 500 to 900 whatever "likely voter" means is apparently not good enough. Their picking of their samples could vary geographically too.

I meant to write something about that in the coming Special Primary anyone from either party can vote, but, from what I read, not if a D has already voted in the D-primary (the one this Dr. Annie won).

As for Darline, she was born Darlene Lettie Graham - spelled correctly. Wiki says that Lindsey taught her to spell it with an "i" when she was 18 y/o. Why? I have no idea.

PS: I appreciate your support for the office, Mr. Hail. Any hat or sign I might have made up would have said "Dump Miss Lindsey" before. Could I still use that one? No, because Darline Graham is married, and I'd want to be correct. "Dump Mrs. Lindsey".

Thank you, too, Mr. Smith. How many dead people are you close to? That's important too. We've come a long way since only White men with property could vote. The next step is to end the hateful discrimination against the unalive. It will probably take yet another Amendment to right this situation.

PS

"Topic Keys: (...) Female Stupidity"

Does anyone know what Darline thinks about any given thing?

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"Darline [sic] Graham, probably a very nice lady but ... NO!:"

The spelling with the "i" consistently gives me a "spelling error" notice. Shouldn't Darline be pronounced "Dahr-line"? A mixture of Darling and Fraulein?

PS

In New York we had the “The rent’s too damned high” guy, but what you need to run against Daline in SC is somebody like Count Binface:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Binface

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PS

The betting/prediction market now has this:

Polymarket
To win SC special primary (by August 25)
- 72% Darline
- 21% Ralph Norman
- 6% Russell Fry
- 1% Mark Lynch

To win general election:
- 91% Republican

If you were betting on the result of the primary, you're pricing in a bet on who will make it to the final two run-off. Both Norman and Darline have been in the top-two of the polls most of the time (excluding those who didn't file, like that strange poll saying there was a huge groundswell for Trey Gowdy).

Mark Lynch could still sneak into the top-two bit would has some catching up to do. Is there a debate?

PS

Polls for the South Carolina Senate special election (first round: August 11; second round: August 25):

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(1.) Resonance Media Services (600 Likely Voters) (poll conducted July 21)
- 21%, Darline Graham
- 17%, Ralph Norman
- 10%, Pam Evette (did not file for election)
- 7%, Mark Lynch
- 7%, Russell Fry
- 7%, Mark Sanford
- 3%, Nancy Mace (did not file for election)
- 28%, Undecided

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(2.) Innovative Communication Strategies poll (788 Likely Voters) (poll conducted July 20-21)
- 19%, Ralph Norman
- 16%, Darline
- 12%, Russell Fry
- 9%, Mark Lynch
- 7%, Nancy Mace (did not file for election)
- 6%, Pam Evette (did not file for election)
- 5%, Mark Sanford
- 26%, Undecided

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(3.) Peak Insights poll (900 Likely Voters? - not specified how respondees selected) (poll conducted July 18-20)
- 35%, Trey Gowdy (did not file for election)
- 16%, Darline
- 10%, Ralph Norman
- 9%, Russell Fry
- 8%, Mark Lynch
- 4%, Nancy Mace (did not file for election)
- 4%, Mark Sanford
- 2%, Pam Evette (did not file for election)
- 14%, DK/None/Undecided

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--- On July 17, Trump called for Darline to run in the special election to win the seat for full term, Jan 2027 to Jan 2033.

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(4.) Emerson College Polling (500 Likely Voters) (poll conducted July 14-15)
- 16%, Ralph Norman
- 13%, Mark Lynch
- 10%, Nancy Mace (did not file for election)
- 10%, Pam Evette (did not file for election)
- 9%, Russell Fry
- 8%, Henry McMaster
- 6%, Darline
- 5%, Mark Sanford
- 5%, Someone Else
- 18%, Undecided

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So, after the Trump endorsement, Darline was in the top-two in all three polls but had been an after-thought in the earlier poll.

It's possible a lot of the immediate shift came from Lynch-to-Darline switchers, although that's a shaky conclusion from the limited polling. (Compare the support-levels of Lunch vs. Darline in the July 14-15 poll with later ones.)

PS: If I were a voater...

I'd voat for Achmed E. Newman early and often.

☮️

PS

The candidates who filed for the August 11 special election:

- Darline Graham

- Duke Buckner

- Russell Fry

- Mark Lynch

- Mark McBride

- Ralph Norman

- Glenda Parker

- Mark Sanford

- Sam Shepherd

- Clark Neilson

- Achmed E. Newman

- Darius Mitchell

- Danny Ford II.

But, now, we hear that the third-to-last has pulled out and endorsed Mark Lynch. Done while wearing a "Dump Darline" cap, atop his signature smirk.