His may be the first campaign suspension qua afterthought …
… but just in time!
"His announcement," observes Politico, "came on the same day as the deadline hit for him to remove his name from the South Carolina primary ballot, a date that had been closely watched amid speculation that the low-polling Graham would want to avoid a potentially poor performance in his own state’s contest."
Two words in that line positively leap from the page in delighting those of us who love understatement: "potentially poor." To wit, the latest intel from S.C.:
Well, Graham can always say he was trouncing Pataki by 100 percent.