State Superintendent* of Education Inez Tenenbaum's surprisingly strong campaign to succeed retiring US Sen. Fritz Hollings (surprising to outsiders, at least; Inez did get more votes statewide in her last reelect than anyone else on the ballot) gets a little positive play in the stately pages of this morning's New York Times. And since we're mired in the bog of South Carolina politics at the moment anyway (a condition I generally try to avoid here on the blog in the interest of good taste), be sure to check out Statehouse Report publisher Andy Brack's recent column on the political difficulties (which, unsurprisingly somehow, appear to include a possible primary challenge, an almost quixotic attachment to legislative lost causes, and, well, pig poop) facing our state's liked, but not well liked governor, Mark Sanford.

* In its original form, this post incorrectly identified Ms. Tenenbaum as the state's "secretary" of education. My apologies to all concerned.

UPDATE: And speaking of candidates, I've been meaning to mention this for some time now: If you're running for office and your web vendor tries to sell you a website with question marks in its URLs (www.mysite.com/index.php?whatever), explain that you are paying for -- and expect to receive -- interior pages that Google can and will index. You'll find a comprehensive discussion of the issue here.

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