Posted on 11/02/2010 4:56:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint will return to Washington for a second term after an easy election that saw his national status rise as a kingmaker for the tea party movement and an unlikely challenge from an oddball opponent.
Based on AP analysis of preliminary exit poll data, the Republican rolled over unemployed military veteran Alvin Greene, a Democrat who won his party's nomination but not its support.
Greene lives with his father and faces a felony obscenity charge, accused of showing pornography to a female college student. During occasional interviews in his nominal campaign, Greene insisted that DeMint had started the recession.
Greene barely campaigned and never raised enough to break the $5,000 threshold that required him to report finances.
DeMint spent $3.5 million he raised to instead help other conservative candidates.
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Dancing with the Stars of course.
Upset of the decade!!! Well, not really, but to answer your question, probably back to jail.
DEMINT/ CHRISTIE 2012
Alvin actually got votes?
Ummm, go to jail?
There's always the democrat nomination for the presidency in 2012.
Shame he wasn't running in California.
Greene would be an improvement.
I imagine they called this race the second the polls closed.
You gloaters are setting yourselves up for the mother of all sandbaggings. My man Alvin Greene has been hanging back working the rope-a-dope. When all of the ballots are counted he is going to come surging forward to lead South Carolina into the future! Jim DeMint started the recession! Yo!
I suspect he will spend his time defending a trademark infringement lawsuit brought by Warrior née James Brian Hellwig.
Yep. He got about 28% of the vote.
That should tell you something about the Democrat base.
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