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| Maria Belen Chapur and former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford pose for a picture in Mount Pleasant, S.C., on April 2, 2013, after Sanford won the GOP nomination for the U.S. House seat he once held (ABC-News) |
| | Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor once so tarnished by a spectacular lie about a love affair that few expected him to recover, is now heading to Congress. |
| Mr. Sanford beat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, a Democrat with no previous political experience. |
| Mrs. Colbert Busch had briefly led Mr. Sanford in early polling, buoying hopes among some voters that a Democrat would, for the first time in more than 30 years, represent the coastal district that includes Charleston. |
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