New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/magazine/04graham-t.html?_r=2

Lindsey Graham, This Year’s Maverick

June 28, 2010

Caption: Graham in his Senate office. His bipartisanship on divisive issues has made him a pariah among some Republicans.

By ROBERT DRAPER

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“Harry Kibler,” Graham, the state’s senior U.S. senator, murmured as he read the campaign poster.

“He’s the one that has that prop of your legs sticking out of a toilet in the back of his truck,” Cato added helpfully.

Graham turned away from the window. A large red flea bite, acquired during a recent trip to Afghanistan, sat aglow just to the right of his nose. “Is he running as a Republican?” he asked. Cato affirmed that Kibler was.

“Who’s running against him?” Graham asked.

“Fred Payne. He’s the incumbent.”

“O.K. Tell Fred, anything I can do, I’ll do.”

Graham is not a morning person, but at that hour in May he was thoroughly revved up, despite eating only a pack of crackers for breakfast. Big issues rattle from his brain and out of his inert, somewhat glassy-eyed face as if dispensed by a gum-ball machine. Among these was the Kerry-Lieberman climate-change bill — or “energy independence” bill, as he preferred to call it for the sake of attracting conservative support.