On election day Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the Democratic candidate vying to succeed Tim Scott in South Carolina's first congressional district, appeared at her local precinct to vote at 11am, threw a few platitudes to reporters and went to work the phones. By contrast Mark Sanford, her Republican opponent, made 11grip-and-grin stops. At a Cook-Out restaurant in North Charleston during the lunch rush, he wolfed a hamburger with onion rings and introduced himself to diners, though for most he needed no introduction. He held this seat from 1995 to 2001, before serving as governor from 2003 to 2009. Phone-banking, he conceded, may seem more efficient, "but you don't have that human dynamic".
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