What the heck is up with this?

[classicman]

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.

[Pie]

Originally Posted by classicman

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.

Yes, S.C. has an 'Open Primary' where party affiliation is not required to vote for a candidate.

However

That would make sense if the two Democrats got more votes combined than there were registered Democrats in South Carolina, and if Demint vote fewer R votes than one normally expects in a primary.

Let's see.

http://www.enr-scvotes.org/SC/16117/27397/en/summary.ht...


~ 424,000 Republican ballots cast
~ 197,000 Democratic ballots cast
~ 2,600,000 total registered voters in S.C. --> turnout was 24%

Jim Demint and Susan Gaddy got almost 412,000 of the 424,000 Republican votes. That's about 97%.


Greene and Rawl got almost 170,000 of the 197,000 Democratic votes. That's about 86%.


If anything, Greene won by about 30,000 votes, which is almost the difference in number of Democratic votes cast for U.S. Senate and total Democratic votes.

There was no huge Republican push to put in an unknown Democrat. 97% of Republicans that voted, voted for a Republican in the U.S. Senate primary.

So... I withdraw my speculation. Go ahead, glatt!