The Shot!

Over the next couple days we are experimenting with Twitter. Shotpolitics.com will automatically reroute to www.twitter.com/shotpolitics.

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Seriously…

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Junior gets no help from Hendrick teammates

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We feel bad for Katon.

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Good Senators pass good bill.

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This past Saturday, Barack Obama made an unscheduled stop during the day of the South Carolina Primary at the Columbia YMCA. He wasn’t there to try to pick up more votes, but rather to just play a few games of basketball.

Jonathan Yarborough, a former Bush 2000 campaign staffer who went on to work at the White House and manage Gresham Barrett’s Congressional campaign, was at the YMCA working out when he noticed Obama playing a game of three-on-three. Curious to see how well the presidential contender played ball, Yarborough went to the other end of the court to just to shoot around and watch. That’s when Barack said in his deep voice, “I want to play some five-on-five.”

Obama then pointed to Yarborough and asked “Do you want to play?”

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Due to the malfunction of voting machines in the Myrtle Brach area, the McCain campaign has filed a lawsuit with a circuit court judge to keep the polls open for an additional two hours. 

McCain’s voting base is particularly strong along the coast, and the judge’s ruling could decide this closely contested election.

Fox News is now declaring Mitt Romney the winner of the Nevada GOP Presidential Caucus. After winning Michigan this is the second state in a row that the Romney campaign has won. Nevada has 34 delegates to the RNC Convention compared to South Carolina’s 24.

Regardless of what happens here in South Carolina, Mitt Romney will be the delegate leader heading into the crucial primary contest in Florida on January 29th.

[Tim Cameron] 

Magazine Criticizes “The Shot” While Funding McCain Blogger Efforts    

I’m writing this post in response to Newsweek’s article “The Dirty War Moves South”, since I was not afforded the opportunity to do so in their piece. I was not called or e-mailed once by any of the eight contributors to this article, which is something I believed to be a common journalistic courtesy. Instead of having the chance to defend myself to the readers of Newsweek numbering in the millions, I have to make my case to the few thousand loyal readers of my website. The only solace I take away from this fact is that the readers of my website are also the people who matter the most in my life.

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Veteran news anchor Dan Rather will be hosting broadcast from the University of South Carolina on Tuesday, January 15th at 8:00 p.m. The event is free and open to public and should be a very interesting event. Rather will be speaking to my former boss, Katon Dawson, about the First-in-the-South Presidential Primary. Dawson played a key role in securing South Carolina’s early voting status, and his team of Jay W. Ragley, Hogan Gidley, Rob Godfrey, Sunny Phillips, and Becca Veazy were able to put on two excellently organized debates.

Dawson and Rather will be joined by Republican strategist Mike Murphy, former DNC Chairman Donald Fowler, Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, and South Carolina political columnist Lee Bandy.

You can reserve your ticket by calling (803) 454-0936. The event will be aired live on HDNet.

This should be a fun and exciting event. I’ll be attending, and I hope to see you there.