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Graham, DeMint a dream for GOP
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| Contributor | Joshua L. |
| Last Edited | Joshua L. Jan 04, 2005 06:28pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, January 4, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON — At Jim DeMint’s election night victory party, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham joyously announced the birth of an all-Republican South Carolina delegation to the U.S. Senate.
Graham told the cheering GOP throng that no longer would South Carolina have only one vote to offer Republican President Bush in the Senate.
“We’ve got two!” he said.
The crowd cheered their relatively youthful Senate duo — Graham, who succeeded 100-year-old Republican Strom Thurmond in 2003, and DeMint, who today succeeds retiring Democrat Fritz Hollings, 83.
Not since 1964 — when Thurmond jumped from the Democratic camp to become a Republican — has South Carolina fielded two U.S. senators of the same party.
And not since Reconstruction has the state sent two Republicans to the Senate.
For much of the past four decades, Hollings and the late Thurmond disagreed on most major issues — abortion, taxes and the decision to go to war, to name a few.
They routinely canceled out each other’s votes.
“The last time we had two (senators) of the same party was 40 years ago,” said former U.S. Rep. Tommy Hartnett, R-S.C. “It makes a big difference, especially when the president’s party is in power” in Congress.
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