South Carolina voters will pick their candidates Tuesday in 11 statewide races along with the state's U.S. House members and state House members.
It appears to be an Election Day without many surprises in a state where no Democrat has beaten an incumbent Republican in a statewide or congressional race since 1998.
Republicans appear heavy favorites across the board, but Democrats have said they can shake things up with a massive get-out-the-vote effort.
It will also be the first statewide general election under South Carolina's new voter ID law.
Here are the stories to watch for Tuesday.
Because of the resignation of U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint in December 2012, South Carolina voters will get to choose not just one but two senators. Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott is seeking to finish the final two years of DeMint's term.
The result in Scott's race will be historic no matter what. Scott and his Democratic opponent, Richland County councilwoman Joyce Dickerson, are both black in a state that has never elected an African-American to a statewide office since just after the Civil War. The third person in the race, American Party candidate Jill Bossi, would be the first woman to be a U.S. senator in the state.
South Carolina's other U.S. senator, Republican Lindsey Graham, is also on the ballot seeking a third term. After a string of U.S. Senate candidates like Alvin Greene who commanded little respect, Democrats chose highly-regarded state Sen. Brad Hutto to run against Graham. Also in the race are former state treasurer and convicted felon Thomas Ravenel and Libertarian Victor Kocher.
This year's ballot features some rematches too. Top of the list is the governor's race, where Republican incumbent Nikki Haley and her Democratic challenger Vincent Sheheen each spent the final days crisscrossing the state.
Haley won by 60,000 votes, or just over 4 percentage points in 2010.
In a fairly genteel election season across South Carolina, the Haley-Sheheen race has displayed the most animosity. Sheheen has called Haley corrupt, and independent candidate Tom Ervin, who will remain on the ballot despite suspending his campaign and endorsing Sheheen, has called her a tyrant who doesn't respect the rule of law.
For the most part, Haley has remained above the fray, allowing others to attack Sheheen as a trial lawyer who defends clients accused of child abuse or domestic violence.
As Republican U.S. House member Tom Rice seeks a second term, he has a rematch against Democrat Gloria Bromell Tinubu. Rice won the 2012 contest with 56 percent. The district includes the Pee Dee and Grand Strand.
Get out the vote
Republicans and Democrats are making a big push to draw more of their voters to the polls.
Democrats are banking on increased turnout for an upset. Each of their candidates points out that President Barack Obama received almost 866,000 votes in 2012 in South Carolina, while Sheheen got 630,500 votes in the 2010 governor's race. Democrats say if they can get those extra 236,000 Obama voters back to the polls in 2014, they can win several races.
Republicans have been doing their own get-out-the vote work. Graham is spending hundreds-of-thousands of dollars from his campaign to help the GOP with a massive get-out-the-vote project.
As of midday Monday, nearly 141,000 absentee ballots have been cast, according to the South Carolina Election Commission. In the 2010 midterm election, about 154,000 absentee votes were counted.
The eight lower statewide offices are up for grabs too.
Secretary of State Mark Hammond is in an unexpectedly tough fight with Democrat Ginny Deerin. Deerin has targeted what she calls fraud and abuse in Hammond's office, and she has gotten a surprising amount of Republican support.
South Carolina voters are choosing a lieutenant governor for the last time. Democrat Bakari Sellers, 30, son of a civil rights leader, is taking on 67-year-old Republican stalwart Henry McMaster in a race of contrasts. Beginning in 2018, the governor will choose a running mate to be the potential lieutenant governor.
Votes will have to choose between Republican incumbents and Democratic challengers for attorney general and comptroller. The office of education superintendent is open, while two third-party candidates are challenging the incumbent agriculture commissioner.
Treasurer Curtis Loftis and Adjutant General Maj. Gen. Bob Livingston Jr. are running unopposed. Livingston has campaigned for a state constitutional amendment that would make adjutant general an appointed position in 2018.
Little competition
In South Carolina's U.S. House races, the six Republican and one Democratic incumbent are all expected to return.
Likewise, at the Statehouse level there are only a handful of competitive South Carolina House races. Eighty-three of the 124 members up for re-election have no opposition Tuesday.
The most controversial member of South Carolina's congressional delegation, Republican Mark Sanford, faced no opposition in the primary or the general election.
In the other races, the incumbents combined have outspent the challengers combined by about 12-to-1.