The Many Lives of Lindsey Graham

When then-Rep. Lindsey O. Graham first ran for the Senate in 2002, it was the end of an era. Graham was seeking to replace the soon-to-be-100 Sen. Strom Thurmond, and South Carolina's junior senator, Fritz Hollings, was eyeing retirement two years later. It was the dawn of the 21st century, and South Carolina had been represented in the Senate by Thurmond since 1955 and Hollings since 1967. The question was self-evident: Could anyone fill those shoes and be as consequential as those two…