Woman, black seek to become firsts in SC runoff

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)— With support from tea party voters and Sarah Palin, an Indian-American woman and a black man entered today’s primary runoffs for separate firsts in South Carolina politics. Nikki Haley could move closer to becoming South Carolina’s first woman governor while Tim Scott hoped to become the state’s first black GOP congressman in more than a century. Both are state representatives and have been endorsed by Palin.