{"id":20246,"date":"2010-06-09T15:54:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T15:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/south_carolina_election_results_haley_barrett_in_gop_runoff_democrats_choos\/"},"modified":"2010-06-09T15:54:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T15:54:58","slug":"south_carolina_election_results_haley_barrett_in_gop_runoff_democrats_choos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20246","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Election Results: Haley, Barrett in GOP runoff; Democrats choose Sheheen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brushing aside allegations of extramarital affairs, tea party favorite Nikki Haley pushed aside a tough group of political stalwarts and nearly won outright the GOP primary race for governor. Just shy of the 50 percent needed to earn the Republican bid, Haley now faces U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett in a runoff June 22.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Democrats overwhelmingly chose Vincent Sheheen as their nominee for governor. Sheheen, a state senator from Camden, took 59 percent of the vote, topping Jim Rex, state superintendent of education, with 23 percent. State Sen. Robert Ford of Charleston finished with 18 percent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2010\/jun\/09\/for-governorhaley-barrett-in-gop-runoffdemocrats\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brushing aside allegations of extramarital affairs, tea party favorite Nikki Haley pushed aside a tough group of political stalwarts and nearly won outright the GOP primary race for governor. Just shy of the 50 percent needed to earn the Republican<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20246\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,54,617,151,618,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-house-of-representatives","category-politics-in-general","category-senate","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}