By Seanna Adcox | Editor-in-chief
Happy Monday!
“You’re betting on the outcome of a contest. It should be considered gambling, no different than if you’re betting on the outcome of a sporting event.” - Benjamin Schiffrin, director of securities policy at Better Markets, a nonprofit watchdog group, on election betting.
Democrat Annie Andrews, Republican Sen. Darline Graham and Libertarian Kasie Whitener prepare to debate Sunday in Columbia. (Photo by Katharine Wilson/SC Daily Gazette)
By Katharine Wilson
The candidates for U.S. Senate traded political digs as they answered policy questions Sunday in their likely only debate ahead of what’s predicted to be a close finish. The debate featured an all-female stage, a first for a U.S. Senate seat in South Carolina.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT OVER THE WEEKEND...
A secret agreement effectively ended Jasper Ocean Terminal plans | By David Wren
SC legislator arrested on charge of pulling gun at polling place | By Skylar Laird
Why this candidate for SC attorney general doesn’t want donations | By Katharine Wilson
MORE FROM STATES NEWSROOM’S D.C. DESK…
Election betting is booming as the midterms near. Do states have the power to curb it? | By Jonathan Shorman
Trump may backtrack on livestreamed execution of Fort Hood shooter | Also by Jonathan Shorman
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