COLUMBIA (AP) — Incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, South Carolina's first black congressman since Reconstruction, has easily won a 12th term.
In early returns Clyburn ran up 74 percent of the vote to about 25 percent for Republican Anthony Culler, a Kingstree banker, in 6th District reaching along the Interstate 95 corridor and into Columbia and Charleston.
Sumter military analyst Kevin Umbaugh also ran for the Libertarians.
The 72-year-old Clyburn said before the campaign that he's in good shape, feels fine and can still play 36 holes of golf a day.
During the campaign State GOP Chairman Matt Moore rebuked Culler and said the state party was not supporting his campaign after Culler called gay-marriage supporters "gremlins that will only destroy our way of life." Culler was referring to the movie "Gremlins."
