Posted on 06/17/2010 8:39:36 AM PDT by Zakeet
Ballot position? Electronic prompts? Pondering the theories behind an unlikely victory.
Does anything feel more proudly patriotic than voting? You stride into your local polling place, past fellow citizens smoothing “I Voted!” stickers to their chests. You snap the booth’s curtain shut and turn to the ballot, ready to execute what Samuel Adams called “the most solemn trust in human society,” only to realize:
Crap. Who are these guys?
Academics call it “low information voting”: the psychology of what goes through our heads when confronted with a ballot full of names or issues we know very little about. Long established in political science circles, the topic is newly relevant with the surprise election last week of Democrat Alvin Greene in the South Carolina Senate primary. It was a baffling 18-point victory for an unknown, unemployed, inarticulate Army veteran who gave no speeches, distributed no literature, and won no endorsements in a non-campaign against experienced pol Victor Rawl. How did it happen? How did 59 percent of 169,542 South Carolinians decide to cast a vote for a man they’d never heard of?
Though there have been allegations of fraud, nothing has been proved. But there are plenty of theories and while none is significant enough by itself to explain an 18-point margin of victory, taken together they may begin to explain Greene’s surprise win.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
I love to watch the idiots stew in their own broth
Meanwhile, the lovely and super intelligent Ann Coulter nailed the morons with her classic: ALVIN GREENE: THE MOST QUALIFIED DEMOCRAT I'VE EVER SEEN
That’s easy...
The BLACKS that make up 55% of the Dem Primary electorate voted for the most BLACK sounding name.
But, that not racist when it done by a Democrat, is it?
I’m changing my name to Abe Abrams and running as a democrat.
Be my guess he got more votes then the other assh#le. Isn’t that how we got the Kenyan? MSM reporters are literally quite stupid.
Hmmmmm . . . maybe Democrats vote primaries along racial lines?
To date, I’ve not seen any satisfactory answer that explains it.
Perhaps they all voted 6 times!
He is black, his opponent was white.
This same thing happened when I lived in Maryland in the 80’s. I forget which party it was. I believe it was an outlying area around D.C. If not there, then Baltimore. The party went nuts. I don’t remember how it ended because I didn’t live in the town, but I read about it in the paper.
Talk to Obama, he would know.
They should start with the obvious - most Rat voters are ill-informed and have no idea who or what they’re voting for.
It amazes me that not a single reporter has ever seen the movie “The Distinguished Gentleman”.
Ha ha ha ha. POST OF THE YEAR!!!!!
Great one.
LOL, it’s real simple. THEY DID NOT LIKE THE OTHER GUY!!!!!!!! Chose the guy they didn’t know in contrast to the guy they did. Since he didn’t campaign, he was just “another choice”.
Change your name to Shabaazz Al-Malik Franklin Antoynie Jones, and you’re a shoo-in...
In 1976, the first time I voted, not knowing any of the local candidates, I clearly remember thinking “Bill Ogg. That’s a strange name. I’ll vote for him.” (Unfortunately, I also voted for Carter.)
More Democrats voted for him than anyone else.
The people who wanted to vote for his opponent accidently voted for Pat Buchanan.
....demonstrates the power of.... stupid people in numbers.
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