[so_real]

In the 2014 South Carolina primary, 187680 votes were cast for Republican Senate candidates ... 68944 votes were cast for Democrat Senate candidates. That's a 2.7 to 1 ratio. Odd that in 2012 Obama exceeded Romney 51% to 47% in a state where the Republican voters outnumber the Democrat voters almost 3-to-1, isn't it. Cross over voters. Graham is a closet Democrat and his Democrat supporters crossed over and voted for him in the primary. He's a reliable wolf in sheep's clothing and they aim to keep him in office or replace him with an unclothed wolf. The only way South Carolina gets rid of him is to allow Brad Hutto to defeat him.

[so_real]

Wikipedia puts the 2014 numbers a bit higher than mine : 110,168 (D) to 300,763 (R). Still, the ratio is about 3-to-1. In 2008, the numbers were 146,660 (D) to 278,945 (R). I wonder if 35,000 or so democrat voters got confused and accidentally voted in the republican primary for Lindsey Graham. Boy, did he ever get "lucky".

[Javeth]

Wow, thanks for posting those numbers— looks like Graham’s RINO-ing has an awful lot of Democratic enabling. Is this a structural issue with South Carolina’s primary and general electoral system? I don’t think I’ve heard of this sort of thing in other states.