The Palmetto Scoop

Today marks the final day of 2007 and, all in all, it was a pretty good year for The Palmetto Scoop. We got a lot accomplished (going from a mere thought to a Newsweek-syndicated blog in less than eight months), we made a few friends, we broke some big stories, we covered some significant [...]

FORMER STAFFER: “WE GUTTED McCAIN IN THREE DAYS, AND WE CAN DO IT AGAIN”
COULD TASTELESS TACTICS OF 2000 BE PREVIEW OF WEEKS AHEAD?
The worst kept secret surrounding the ugliest wave of campaign sleaze tactics in South Carolina’s presidential primary history is that Sen. John McCain’s 2000 White House ambitions were derailed by clandestine operatives [...]

The third presidential endorsement from a prominent South Carolina blogger came Sunday when Voting Under the Influence announced that it was backing Republican Mike Huckabee’s White House ambitions. The Palmetto Scoop was the first to endorse Sen. John McCain two weeks ago and Earl Capps announced his support for Rudy Giuliani a few days [...]

It hasn’t received much coverage, but there’s a tug of war going on between state governors and President Bush over who should have authority over National Guard troops during times of emergency. Until a 2005 spat between the federal government and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco following Hurricane Katrina — after which Congress passed a [...]

The Dallas Morning News wrote Wednesday that Barack Obama is having a difficult time connecting with African Americans in South Carolina, even though many people believed such support would be inevitable for the first serious black presidential contender in U.S. history. And now it turns out the event that may have earned him the [...]

A day after White House hopeful Mitt Romney launched a television ad attacking rival John McCain on immigration and taxes, the Arizona senator is fighting back. The McCain campaign leaked a six-month old advertisement to Slate Magazine that attempts to, as Slate put it, “hang Romney with his own words.” They [...]

It seems like I can’t mention Ron Paul without droves of his cyber-trolls emerging from the woodwork to spew endless paragraphs of campaign propaganda. So after seeing the above clip of the Revolution leader confirming that he doesn’t believe in evolution on the website of my fellow Ruckuser Outside the Beltway, I’m [...]

No, this has nothing to do with Georgia fans. And yes, I realize I rarely say anything nice about Clemson University.
But being a huge supporter of biofuels, a groundbreaking project to convert peach waste into a hydrogen-based biofuel being conducted by a Clemson researcher has caught my eye. As a member of the [...]

Over the last month, nearly 28,000 South Carolinians registered to vote for the first time, the Associated Press reported. That means that more than half of this state’s population will be able to have their say in either the Jan. 19 or Jan. 26 presidential primary election.
More than 2.5 million people are now registered [...]

He could start by using UPS, not the U.S. Postal Service and using his own money, not taxpayer dollars. The Associated Press reported that U.S. House members spent $20.3 million on constituent mailings last year, sending nearly 116 million pieces of mail. And one of our own took the prize for sending the most [...]