"Joe Arnold Erwin" is an entrepreneur and politician from South Carolina. He co-founded and is President of Erwin-Penland Advertising, is a former Chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic Party, and co-founded the thought leadership conference Food for Thought in 2008.

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I respect Michael's decision. He found out that, for him, the timing wasn't good and, honestly, I'm excited about some of the (other) people who have expressed an interest.

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I think he's the kind of guy who would be successful regardless of party affiliation.

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Hopefully he'll ask good questions and listen carefully to the other leaders at the table so South Carolina can move forward again.

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Elected officials who win trust, like Strom Thurmond and Fritz Hollings, get re-elected.

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Not by any effort of his own, it looks like Mark Sanford finally has a good economic development team for South Carolina.

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Mark Sanford is playing political games while South Carolinians suffer. The governor panders to politicians and pollsters instead of creating and keeping jobs in our state.

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With tonight's speech, Sanford again refuses to take responsibility for his failed policies and ... the voters have about had enough.

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The numbers support the fact that this is a more Republican state than Democratic state. Absolutely, recruiting is harder.

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I don't think there's any question about it, this is a Karl Rove special. They believe the district has become more Republican, and they see an opportunity to knock John off. So this time, they're going to pull out all the stops.

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