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Charleston-area Democrats fired lots of bow-shots at Republicans in a gathering along the Ashley River Saturday but struck a more serious tone in stressing success in the November election hinges on a commitment to turn out.

"Charleston County is going to make or break the difference," local party Chairman Brady Quirk-Garvan said during the party's annual Blue Jamboree.

"If 56 or 58 percent of Charleston County votes for Vincent Sheheen, he's our next governor," he added.

Republican Gov. Nikki Haley was a repeat target of many of the speakers during the four hour event, along with most of the Democrats' GOP rivals.

"We're tired of falling into these 'Nikki Haley potholes,' " Sheheen told the crowd as rain forced attendees under a large open-air shed. Sheheen, a state senator from Camden, blamed Haley for neglecting state roadways.

U.S. Senate Democrat candidate Brad Hutto took note of his Republican opponent U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham's penchant for making appearances on nationally focused Sunday morning political talk shows.

"You wouldn't know he is from South Carolina," Hutto told the group. "He doesn't talk about South Carolina. He talks about anything, but us."

Saturday's featured speaker was former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a senior advisor for Ready for Hillary, a Super PAC that has spent more than $7.4 million as of June 30 setting the ground work for a possible Hillary Clinton run for the White House in 2016.

A "Ready for Hillary" campaign bus was prominently parked at the event, held at the Jenkins Orphanage in North Charleston. The PAC also provided $5,000 to help with S.C. Democrat Party field work this year.

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The Social Democrats, Swedens biggest political party, will proceed with forming a minority government with the Greens and now faces a challenging couple of months of work to pass its first budget.

Its a firm conviction that we will present a government and also present a budget that can pass in parliament, Social Democratic leader Stefan Loefven said at a press conference today in Stockholm. No budget has of course been completed.

Sweden was cast into political turmoil after Sept. 14 elections gave neither of the two traditional blocs a majority. Voters flocked to the Sweden Democrats, an anti-immigration party which no one wants to cooperate with. The nationalist party more than doubled to 49 seats in parliament, enough to sway the balance of power in favor of either group.

Loefvens alliance with the Greens will hold 138 seats in the 349-seat legislature and he will need votes from the ex-communist Left Party to pass budgets. Rules allow for fiscal spending bills to pass by a plurality in order to make it easier for minority coalitions to govern.

Yet even with backing from the Left the government faces a tricky parliamentary situation since the Sweden Democrats could decide to back the four-party oppositions shadow budget. That would force a government crisis and could trigger the first early election in more than half a century. Parliament votes on the budget in December.

Were putting together a budget that we of course think will pass in parliament but how the Sweden Democrats will vote, how that vote will turn out, no one can be sure about, Loefven said. Thats completely up to them.

The Left has conditioned supporting the Social Democrats on limiting profits at private providers of welfare services such as education and health-care funded by taxpayers.

All is pointing in the direction that Stefan Loefven will become our next prime minister and thats good, Left Party leader Jonas Sjoestedt told reporters.

Right now were negotiating about profits in the welfare sector. When weve completed that and have agreed, which we still havent, we will negotiate a state budget, he said.

According to a time-line issued by parliament, the legislature, called the Riksdag in Swedish, will vote on a new prime minister after it opens a new session on Sept. 30, which could happen as early as Oct. 2.

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