Only 4 years ago, former Governor Mark Sanford was embroiled in an ethics scandal stemming from his disappearance to visit his mistress in Argentina. But last night, all that seemed forgotten as he was elected to South Carolina’s First Congressional District with a 10-percentage-point lead over the Democratic candidate, Elizabeth Colbert Busch.
Brian Hicks, a political columnist for the Charleston Post and Courier, describes the circumstances that led to Sanford’s comeback.
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