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• Added August 1, 2013:  South Carolina Senate Tea Party Challenge:  I just love the Tea Party some days; oh, yes, indeedy I do.  Now why would I, a nice liberal girl from a nice blue city in a nice blue state, love the Tea Party?  Because they may make it easier for the Democrats to keep the Senate and even win a few seats that were considered in the "Republican" column here and there.  The Tea Party is noisy, active. and extreme.  And, outside of the Republican party, not very well liked.  And it appears that long-time Republican Senators are attracting Tea Party challengers these days faster than garbage attracts flies.  Lindsay Graham of South Carolina is the latest.
  
  Again from Huffington Post:  
  
  
  
  "Republican Nancy Mace will run for Senate in South Carolina next year, Goose Creek Patch reports.
  Mace, the first female graduate of The Citadel and a tea party favorite, told Patch that she plans to challenge Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in the 2014 Republican primary. She is set to announce her candidacy at a Saturday breakfast hosted by the Berkeley County Republican Party.
  Graham, who will seek a third term in the Senate, has been targeted by tea party activists who have taken issue with his willingness to compromise with Democratic colleagues on issues like immigration reform. Conservatives also lashed out at Graham for his opposition to Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) March filibuster on the Obama administration's use of drones.
  
  
  "Lindsey Graham could be replaced with someone worthy of that seat," FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe said in May. "The way he lashed out against Rand Paul, he's begging for a primary.""

  
  

  So we'll let Mace push him as far to the right as he can go... and, if she can't beat him in the primary, maybe he will say or do something that will sound so extreme that there will be room somewhere for a Democrat.  But we're talking South Carolina here, so I wouldn't put any money on this, though I wish the good people of South Carolina can prove me wrong.