21% of South Carolina are retarded bitter partisans

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Daedalus685

Daedalus685

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I concur Atreus21,

If an inanimate chair were running for senate with no party affiliation I bet it could get 20% of the vote based solely on the "hahaha, I'm totally voting for the chair" crowd. Heck, I bet that would increase even higher if it had a democratic or republican sticker on it.
 
jhbball

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nick1985 said:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub..._carolina/election_2010_south_carolina_senate

South Carolina Senate: DeMint 58%, Greene 21%


LOL?!?! 21% of the state is really voting for Greene?





http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/us/politics/12greene.html



"Because everyone wants to know how Mr. Greene, an unemployed Army veteran who had been completely unknown until Tuesday, inexplicably defeated a heavily favored former legislator and judge to become the state’s Democratic nominee for the Senate — and the state’s latest political circus act.

Mr. Greene had just a few peaceful hours to savor his victory in the tiny, ramshackle home he shares with his elderly father along a quiet highway in Manning, where he has been bunkered since election night. Then, The Associated Press reported that Mr. Greene was arrested in November and is facing a felony obscenity charge; he is accused of showing pornography to a University of South Carolina student. He had been discharged “involuntarily” from the Army and showed no signs of having waged an actual campaign in recent months — no advertising, no staff, no money.

Mr. Greene, who declined to comment on the obscenity charge, would not say how he came up with the $10,440 to register his candidacy. Representative James E. Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina and the House majority whip, suggested that Mr. Greene was a “Republican plant” and that the circumstance reeked of the “shenanigans” that have become the state’s trademark.

“We have embarrassment fatigue here,” said Dick Harpootlian, the former Democratic chairman of the state. “If there is an embarrassment equivalent of post-traumatic stress disorder, South Carolina has it.”
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Coming from a bitter partisan. Nice work, professor.
 
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MrEgo

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nick1985 said:
Kind of like this alleged felon garners 21% of the hacks on your side of the fence?
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And what side of the fence am I on? I don't have a side. I tend to mock and argue with conservatives on this board more so than liberals, but I'd just chalk that up to the fact that there are many more conservative zealots that post here.

My point is that this isn't even surprising. Apparently just by associating yourself with a political party, regardless of your criminal history or moral values, you'll get at least 21% of the vote.
 
highland145

highland145

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Marlin1975 said:
Problem is the average Joe Blow can;t make a run like this and that is why people are looking at this. How many here could drop 10k+ easy and not worry about it just to get your name on a ticket and then not advertise or even put up a sign. If I drop 10k on somethign I better have a chance of winning and you better bet I would have signs up, knocking on doors, etc... to get my 10k worth.
Either he is a plant or he is nuts. He seems kinda nuts from what little I have read but something is not adding up. Hell even a voting machine error seems more likly then him winning outright.
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He won the D slot because no one knew either candidate. Neither one campaigned. And, more importantly, the ballots are alphabetical. Not a plant. Just Dems punching the first name.

The $10K is interesting but can't imagine a repub spending the $$ when DeMint has it in the bag already.

Lastly, I live in S.C. and I'm voting for him after seeing his amazing oratory skills. The more medicated they are the less damage they'll do.:D
 
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Vette73

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nick1985 said:
huh?
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100 - 21 = 79






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ayabe

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Of course Rasmussen Nick knows that 0.0000000% of those polled for Greene are registered republicans.

It cannot be denied, everyone knows this.
 
werepossum

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He's an honorably discharged decorated vet. True, he speaks like Obama without a TelePrompter and has the morals of Bill Clinton but that still doesn't make him worse than the other Democrat candidates. And the idea that Republicans would fund qualification for a plant and then do absolutely nothing else - for that matter, the idea that they would risk their freedom to jury-rig an election against the popular Demint in what everyone agrees will be a Republican year - is a howler. The greatest thing that Greene has done is to expose the large number of insane conspiracy nuts amongst the Democrat electorate.

If the Dems had a clue they would be getting behind Greene with money, speech coaches, and maybe a change in medication rather than alienating one of their core constituencies, blacks. This is especially true given that most South Carolina Democrats are going to have to run on an Obama-hating platform to stand any chance in November.
 
highland145

highland145

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werepossum said:
If the Dems had a clue they would be getting behind Greene with money, speech coaches, and maybe a change in medication rather than alienating one of their core constituencies, blacks. This is especially true given that most South Carolina Democrats are going to have to run on an Obama-hating platform to stand any chance in November.
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Impossible to alienate most blacks from the Dem party. Ingrained, inbred, ignorant just like rednecks and the Repubs.

I'm voting for Greene. Jimbo sucks.
 
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"He's an honorably discharged decorated vet."


Not even close....he was booted out for failure to be a good soldier, and he's not decorated in any way that we have seen. His awards are for just being in the military during OIF/OEF and being stationed in Korea. EVERY soldier in the Army has his "decorations", and most have far more.

Please don't cheapen soldiers with a true military career and decorations by lauding this guy. We know NOTHING about him other than he won a race, without disclosing where he managed to come up with 10,000 dollars (reportedly without a job).
 
Throckmorton

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I think you guys are missing the point. Greene is mentally disabled judging by the Olbermann interview, plus the radio interview with the rightwing guy.

He's clearly a Republican plant, but it's pretty embarassing that Democrats voted for the guy.
 
Throckmorton

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werepossum said:
He's an honorably discharged decorated vet. True, he speaks like Obama without a TelePrompter and has the morals of Bill Clinton but that still doesn't make him worse than the other Democrat candidates. And the idea that Republicans would fund qualification for a plant and then do absolutely nothing else - for that matter, the idea that they would risk their freedom to jury-rig an election against the popular Demint in what everyone agrees will be a Republican year - is a howler. The greatest thing that Greene has done is to expose the large number of insane conspiracy nuts amongst the Democrat electorate.

If the Dems had a clue they would be getting behind Greene with money, speech coaches, and maybe a change in medication rather than alienating one of their core constituencies, blacks. This is especially true given that most South Carolina Democrats are going to have to run on an Obama-hating platform to stand any chance in November.
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Have you heard the interviews? He's not just a bad public speaker.
 
werepossum

werepossum

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Throckmorton said:
Have you heard the interviews? He's not just a bad public speaker.
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I have heard only one little sound bite, and it was pretty painful. (Not as painful as listening to Olbermann!) Still, that goes totally against the idea that he is a Republican plant; no one could ever imagine this guy winning the Democrat nomination. Had the Pubbies decided to plant a candidate, it would have been a reasonably attractive candidate with a known fatal flaw, to allow him to be defeated in November. And it would probably not be to win, because any plant that wins could end up unexpectedly strong and defeat you in the general election, but rather someone who, if well funded, could run a strong enough campaign that Rawl would have to address his issues. Someone who could sling enough mud that he would inevitably damage Rawl for November - and who would in turn be guaranteed to take enough mud that, should he win, he too would be damaged goods.

The Republicans recently faced a similar serious problem. A Republican nominee, David Duke, turned out to be a member of the Klan. (Unlike Robert Byrd's party, this is a deal breaker to the Republicans.) The Pubbies did the right thing and threw their support to the Democrat candidate, as supporting a third party or independent candidate might have resulted in Duke winning. So far the Democrats have simply thrown hissy fits and demanded that their preferred candidate be given the nomination even though he got beat like a rented mule. I guess we'll see in the end how they react.

Interesting aside - according to wikipedia Alvin Greene has a Bachelor's Degree in political science from the University of South Carolina. The guy may be mentally ill, or just shell-shocked at winning, or on some sort of strong medication, I don't know.
 
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