How 'House of Cards' shed light on Mark Sanford's victory

I received the news about the outcome of the special election in my home district at a peculiar time. I was in the middle of an episode of "House of Cards." My phone buzzed. "Your boy from SC won his seat back?" a friend texted, referring to Republican Mark Sanford's victory Tuesday night over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch for a House seat from South Carolina. My friend has known I've often felt like a one-woman diplomatic envoy in D.C., attempting to explain the rationale of my fellow Caroli...