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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More

Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.
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Nikki Haley Questions

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Jun 10 2010, 2:50 PM ET Comment

I haven't posted anything about Will Folks' allegation because I can't get an angle on what's actually happening. If Folks really was trying to torpedo her candidacy, is this the worst political attack in history? What am I missing here?

UPDATE: Here's what I'm missing:

The blog, FITSNews, was already popular in South Carolina political circles, averaging around 700,000 hits a month, according to the site. But in the three weeks since Folks announced his yet unproved "inappropriate physical relationship" with Haley, the site has received 1.5 million hits. During the Sanford scandal surrounding Gov. Mark Sanford, the site's traffic jumped from a rate of 400,000 hits a month to 600,000. 

 "When the Sanford scandal broke last summer, we saw a huge spike in readership that eventually settled at a level around 50 percent higher than it had been," Folks wrote in a post on the site. "That same trend is repeating itself here."


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