South Carolina Daily Standard

Tropical Storm Hanna is looming off of the Puerto Rican cost and may prove to be a little problem for South Carolina. Granted the hurricane is going to be nothing like Hugo or Katrina for that matter, but a hurricane is a hurricane.
 
The most recent projected path has the storm possible going right through […]

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It looks as if McCain has decided on who his VP is going to be. He should let them and hopefully us know sometime tomorrow. McCain is going to try and steal the thunder from Obama by making his choice a little early. If McCain does indeed make his VP announcement tomorrow, he will share […]

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When we screw up, we really screw up!
 
When we were updating the site this morning we accidentally deleted our last 10 days worth of posts. We are working to get the page back up.
 

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Republican nominee John McCain had his best fundraising month yet. The Arizona Senator raised a little better than 27 million dollars in the month of July. This is by far his best month of fundraising since he became the GOP nominee.
 
This is good news for McCain, he will need to raise as much as […]

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A small school district in Northern Texas is going to allow teachers and staff to carry firearms in the classroom. Leave it to Texas, the state where you are issued a .357 at birth to start this program which can only end in disaster. Armed police officers are one thing, but a teacher packing heat is […]

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It looks as if former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staffs, Colin Powell is going to endorse Barack Obama at the DNC convention in two weeks. We thought Powell was a Republican, but quickly realized that he had only been appointed to office and never had to declare a party […]

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Politcal Consultant and Publisher Rod Shealy will be checking into MUSC today for open surgery to remove a brain tumor. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Shealy and his family.

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Former North Carolina Senator and presidential candidate John Edwards apparently likes the ladies and not just his cancer stricken wife. Edwards has admitted to an affair with a woman who he hired to help with his campaign for the White House.
 
Edwards finally admitted diddling the help after repeatedly denying he had ever done anything […]

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We here at SC Daily Standard are big Paris Hilton fans as you know from our primary coverage. About a week ago John McCain released an ad featuring Britney Spears and our favorite celebrity Paris Hilton. The ad made Obama out to be nothing more than an over hyped celebrity. The Obama campaign dismissed the […]

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Today’s Gallup Poll shows Obama and McCain are all tied up at 44% with a little less than 100 days to go. Obama was leading McCain by 9 points less than a week ago.
 
Obama is still dominating headlines and pulling in record number crowds in and outside of the US. What does this mean? […]

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