:::I never said that "thestate" was minor, I said that the event was minor.  It was not widely reported outside of SC for two days.  This was a minor blip on the radar that resulted in 2 maybe 3 different stories which were then re-linked in some additional sources.  You seem to be confused about multiple stories versus a single reported story having that story rebroadcast without any additional information.  Some of the sources you show above are blogs, and most are the wistv report linked back from another tv station.  You did have a synthesis violation which you did remove during one of your edits.  There is simply no way that this passes WP:WEIGHT with regards to her entire political career, and the fact that it recieved no additional coverage after the 2 days of the "thestate" report shows no long-lasting nature to this.