Nate Silver has it at about 75% chance that Graham keeps his seat.
I don’t think outing him would help. Most of SC suspects he’s gay. But, he’s the ‘good’ type of gay that keeps it in the closet and doesn’t rub your nose in it
This. You don’t want to attack Graham for being gay (assuming he is) just like you wouldn’t want to attack Tim Scott for being black.
Wait, what, he’s black? Really?
Don’t tell anyone - he hasn’t come out to his parents yet.
Dammit, this is the kind of thing the voters of South Carolina deserve to know.
I’ve seen too many “dead heat” races with a Dem going up against an incumbent Rep. The Dem never wins, and I fear this time it will be the same.
And especially in SC, it is so inelastic, so red and so many people just don’t ’do Democrats’ as I was told repeatedly
FiveThirtyEight has an article up about this. The fact is that Democrats is South Carolina routinely get 40-45% of the vote through a combination of black and liberal white voters. It’s getting beyond that ceiling that’s proven difficult, as almost all other white voters simply will not vote for a Democratic candidate.
As for gay or lesbian politicians, the only time you want to attack them for being that is when they’re outright hypocrites. That is, if they publicly oppose LGBT+ rights while at the same time having lots of fun in that closet or something along those lines. Larry Craig, for example
Doesn’t Lindsay Graham do this? Or no?
I’ll be disappointed if Harrison doesn’t win, but I will take satisfaction in that it cost Graham a lot more money than he expected and made him (and the GOP at large) utterly miserable for months. It doesn’t balance out, but it helps.
Not as far as anyone knows. I don’t think he’s ever been known to have been in a relationship. He’s probably asexual.
but they may not turn out at all
A lot of southern states now have Dems get 45% of the vote. It’s the last 6% they have a problem with.
I’m a rare person. A white southern guy who normally votes Dem.
I thought I read (on this board, IIRC) that Lindsay had a live-in partner, and that it was widespread, but not talked about, knowledge. Was that wrong?
I’ve never heard that and I can’t find anything about that from a quick search that I just did.
As I said, it was just an uncited mention, so it could be complete hogwash.
No debate tonight – Graham refuses to take COVID test:
Why would he not take one? That looks massively suspicious.