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Tuesday, June 15, 2010 | 6:52pm
Unemployed Stuttering S.C. Man Wins Dem’s U.S. Senate Nomination in a Landslide
No Finances, No rallies, No platform, No website, No Ads, No Campaign, No Problem. The Curious Case of Alvin Greene
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Late last week news of a new democratic nominee for South Carolina’s U.S. Senate seat began to simmer. Alvin Greene, the name you know and trust right? If you’ve never heard of him, your not alone. Most folks outside of his own family never have either. Prior to his victory he was an unemployed discharged Army serviceman with no job, no financing, no platform, no signs, no campaign manager…hell no campaign. And yet somehow he beat an opponent that busted his hump every day spending money on signs, rallies and TV ads. So what gives?
Well our resident political guru, Malcolm has smelled a rat since jump and has been on the case to figure out just what’s up. Political tricks are nothing new in this unsportsmanlike game of politics. As Malcolm warned us during the last days of the Obama campaign in 1998, parties will stop at nothing to cause chaos in effort to create a seismic shift in the polls. From posting signs in democratic neighborhoods that say “Don’t forget to vote on WEDNESDAY” when everyone knows all elections are held on Tuesday, to spreading rumors that “police will be checking for warrants at the polling station” there were a number of examples of clever tricks designed to sway elections in the last Presidential election and throughout history.
So after watching the video of this far less than astute Political upstart, Malcolm and I started to dig through though ol’ political bag-o-tricks database to see what the hell went wrong.
Here are some theories:
Some are blaming this on the alphabet… that people who don’t know either candidate will vote for the first name on the list in which Greene would be your man. Naaaaah could South Carolinians be that simple?
Or perhaps it was part of some elaborate plot on the part of the Republican party in plant an empty suit creating an easy victory in the general election. Hmmmm…that’d involve to much secrecy and there’s too much money out there for this not to have leaked.
What about Ballot stuffing? Well Malcolm checked that out too. He went to the SC website and checked the votes at most precincts, and stuffing the ballot boxes would have involved votes across multiple precincts, which is difficult.
So what exactly happened here? While we scratch our heads and try to figure it out lets enjoy this very entertaining video.
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I must say as a black man, it really makes me sick to my stomach to see someone like that get in front of a camera and represent all of us. That is essentially what happens to black men when one of us gets in front of a camera ill prepared. We all get hit with the stigma of being ignorant. Plant or not, he needs representation.
prepared? No this guy’s just not remotely qualified.
I’ve actually started feeling bad for Greene. He’s probably a nice guy with a good heart; too shy for the public spotlight and totally unprepared for the attention he’s getting.
ITS A CLEAR AS DAY SET-UP TO MAKE US LOOK IGNORANT!! YOU KNO WHO PUT HIM IN THAT POSITION AND ITS NOT BLACKS….SMH
agreed
agreed X2 !
If there was malice involved, I don’t think it was done to make blacks look stupid. It was done to make the democrats look stupid. Job accomplished.
LoL, is this real?
This can’t be real…
The presenter was coaching him on how to run a campaign, sad…
Its ridiculous.
He’s a pawn. It costs over $10,000 just to FILE your intention to run for this office. He doesn’t have a job. He lives with his parents. He has no savings.
Until Greene filed his paperwork on March 14th of this year, Vic Rawl was running unopposed for the democratic nomination for Senate.
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If you flip a coin enough times, it will come out heads and tails about equally. Given two unknown candidates, you might expect a 50-50 split.
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However, that being said, I love this story on so many different levels.
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First: it harkens back to the old days when you would mess with your opponent (in good humor) by canceling their hotel reservations or breaking the air conditioner at their hall just before a big speech.
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Second it proves what I’ve been trying to tell everyone here for 2 years: that winning a campaign is easier than you think; that WANTING to do it is half the battle.
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At this point, I think it’s one of two things: It’s either a put up job, where he was asked to run by a republican who wanted his guy to face the weakest candidate in November; or it was a lark on Greene part, and he never thought it would go this far.
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In either case I don’t think there was any malice on Greene’s part. Someone probably told him that he would be the best candidate, and he probably believed it. He also probably never imagined that it would go this far. He would run, and then he’d have a story to tell; winning the primary was never in the cards.
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Of course now that he IS the democratic nominee (even though the party wants him to step aside), the question now is: What will it take to make him win in November?
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Even though no one seriously wants him to win, I could see a fairly easy path to a November win if they just put their hearts (and money) behind it.
Serious hope he doesn’t win. I am getting stationed on Ft. Jackson in December and will not get a chance to have an input in this matter. I want SC to be stripped from the Right Wingers, but not in this fashion.
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