Well, It is South Carolina

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Don’t a lot of elections end with a last minute flurry of lie detector tests? Well, okay, maybe not really. But this is South Carolina. In the last two days two major figures in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial contest have taken lie detector tests. One was candidate Andre Bauer who took a lie detector test to prove he wasn’t behind affair allegations against opponent Nikki Haley and another by accuser Larry Marchant to prove he had the one-night-stand with Haley he claims to have had. His came back “inconclusive.”

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