The conventional wisdom triumphed easily in Tuesday night’s special primary elections to choose a successor to Trump budget director Mick Mulvaney in the 5th congressional district of South Carolina. Front-runner Archie Parnell won the Democratic nomination without a runoff, dispatching netroots favorite Alexis Frank and als0-ran Les Murphy by a wide margin. In the Republican race, longtime front-runners Ralph Norman, a former state legislator, and Tommy Pope, current speaker pro tem of the State House, won spots in a March 16 runoff.