Nikki Haley

A new poll from South Carolina shows State Representative Nikki Haley has moved into third place (PDF) ahead of Congressman Gresham Barrett. Attorney General Henry McMaster and Lt. Governor Andrew Bauer are tied at 22% with Haley moving up to 13%. This is really good news for Haley. She’s moved up in the polling and is now ahead of an otherwise popular sitting Congressman. Significantly, Nikki Haley is in second place with voters aged 45-64...  

Interestingly, as I write this, word comes from the paper that one of the GOP candidates for Governor of South Carolina, has been AWOL from his day job. Gresham Barrett, a South Carolina Congressman, has been absent from more votes in the United States House of Representatives than any other Congressman, Democrat or Republican. Barrett is, like the other guys in the race, a good guy, but I have to ask what these guys have sacrificed for...  

First lady Jenny Sanford has endorsed Lexington state Rep. Nikki Haley in her five-way race for the 2010 Republican governor's nomination. In a letter released to the public, Sanford praised the 37-year-old hospital executive and said Haley was the kind of leader she wanted for S.C. She noted Haley's push for more on-the-record voting, a stance that angered House leadership."She still didn't back down," Sanford wrote. "And she got results - we...  

(Kathleen Parker, National Columnist) On Monday, as news filtered out that beleaguered South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was being charged with 37 ethics violations, the woman who wants his job spoke of restoring public pride in her home state.That's an ambitious goal for anyone at a time when South Carolina seems bent on providing comedy routines for the rest of the nation, but especially so for a minority woman in a six-way Republican primary...  

State Rep. Nikki Haley of Lexington, a Republican candidate for governor in 2010, will visit Hartsville to meet voters fro 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, at Centennial Park on the corner of Fifth Street and Carolina Avenue.  

The good old boy network is so entrenched and pervasive, it sometimes affects even the media — particular the media covering politics. I’m told by friends in South Carolina that the press over there has done very little in the way of covering Nikki Haley as a serious candidate for Governor, despite having the support of Mark Sanford pre-Argentina and still having the strong support of Mrs. Sanford, who just recently reiterated her support for...  

First lady Jenny Sanford has endorsed Lexington state Rep. Nikki Haley in her five-way race for the 2010 Republican governor's nomination. In a letter released to the public, Sanford praised the 37-year-old hospital executive and said Haley was the kind of leader she wanted for S.C. She noted Haley's push for more on-the-record voting, a stance that angered House leadership. "She still didn't back down," Sanford wrote. "And she got results...  

Disgraced South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford might not have much political capital these days, but his wife is using hers.First lady Jenny Sanford endorsed Republican state Rep. Nikki Haley in a letter made public Wednesday to succeed her term-limited husband in 2011.Mark Sanford has long complimented Haley for her efforts to make the legislature more accountable, including by forcing more roll call votes.  

At 13, Nikki Haley became the bookkeeper for her family's Bamberg clothing store, in charge of payroll, taxes and more.By 16, she went though her first audit, passing with flying colors."At the time, I didn't know it wasn't normal (for a teenager to have that much responsibility)," said Haley, who was assigned the role of bookkeeper by her mother, an Indian immigrant who eventually turned the family's small retail store into a multimillion...