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What the heck is up with this?
Mystery S.C. nominee has pending felony charge
Alvin Greene has been on the phone all day. That's to be expected for the guy who just won South Carolina's Democratic Senate primary and is facing incumbent Republican Jim DeMint in November. But everyone calling Greene has just been trying to find out who the heck he is — and one thing reporters learned Tuesday is that a criminal complaint was sworn out against him last year for allegedly showing obscene photos to a South Carolina college student and suggesting they go to her dorm room. Greene, a 32-year-old unemployed military veteran who lives with his parents, defeated Vic Rawl on Tuesday for the Democratic Senate nomination despite having run essentially no public campaign — no events, no signs, no debates, no website, no fundraising. The result has baffled political observers, who had heavily favored Rawl — a former state legislator, attorney and prosecutor who had the edge inasmuch as he actually campaigned and tried to win. Many in South Carolina (which has grandly lived up to its reputation as a political circus this year) suspect that somewhere, a crafty GOP political operative is snickering. |
Maybe people were thinking politics are so full of crooks what does one more matter?
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It's South Carolina, people.
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I'm still having trouble figuring out how this guy who ran virtually, if not literally, no campaign came out with 59% of the Democratic votes. Srsly?? |
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This is wild speculation on my part, and I have absolutely no proof, but this has fraud written all over it. Diebold?
Edit: Aw, Pie. why did you have to go and ruin a good conspiracy theory with a logical explanation? |
Hey, don't let me stop you! :right:
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Can the R's vote in a D primary there? Aside from the obvious switching of party to do just that. Wouldn't that have raised a red flag or two having tens of thousands of them? That would be really serious.
@glatt... maybe the D's planted him trying to blame it on the R's and thereby . . . . Yeh there is something seriously wrong here - maybe the machines - I hadn't thought of that. |
59 percent of what number?
Strategic voting is a bit of a perversion, I agree. I think it simply reflects a fundamental weakness in our two-party-winner-take-all de facto electoral system. This system is not in place everywhere. And there are a number of other systems, just as democratic, that offer a what I believe to be a better result, specifically proportional representation. |
The theory I saw is that nobody knows Rawl either, and Greene was first on the ballot.
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Thirded. I believe these alternatives spread the money around more evenly as well reducing outside influence - maybe not?!
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At least he will be in good company among the rest of the criminals ithat make up our Congress.
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