Experts review S.C. Senate ballots

Politico ^ | June 11, 2010 | David Catanese

[2ndDivisionVet]

"We have found Chauncey Gardener, and it turns out that he’s a black Democrat from South Carolina."

He had to have scored pretty well on his ASVAB or he wouldn't have been allowed to join the Army. I have a feeling he wasn't a missile repairman, but still... BTW, is it illegal for him to have borrowed or been gifted the $10,400 filing fee?

[Hoffer Rand]

Robert Plant is probably pretty green by now.

[Political Junkie Too]

The campaign of defeated Democratic Senate candidate Vic Rawl has assembled a team of national academic experts to review Tuesday’s perplexing South Carolina primary results that propelled a virtually unknown, underfunded and unemployed candidate to the party’s nomination over a veteran officeholder and public official.

"Guys, I swear... It was only supposed to give the guy one vote for every 100 votes cast. I don't know what happened... Maybe I got the registers mixed up or something and the guy got 10 votes for every vote cast.

"I knew we shouldn't have agreed to do this. Now we're going to Federal Pound Me In The Ass Prison."

-PJ

[wideminded]

He was the black Democratic candidate. Huge advantage,

But how did anyone know that if he had no ads and no one had heard of him before?

I thought his interviews were really amusing.

Was he interviewed before the election?

Possibly the name thing makes sense. I suppose another factor could be that the voters just hated the other candidate.

[JimBianchi11]

No it’s not illegal to get the filing fee from someone else, but the money must be declared on the quarterly financial form. This keeps people from donating a dishonest amount of money to anyone’s campaign.

BTW, Green as never filed any financial forms thus far.

ZIP. NADA.

Either he files an amended form immediately, or he gets another felony investigation. This time for election fraud.

[brothers4thID]

Oh for cripes sake. The disparity between absentee and election day results is easy to explain and any of these so called “experts” should know the answer. Absentee primary voters are, by definition, more engaged in the process than the typical election day primary voter. They are more likely to have done reasearch into each candidate and formed an opinion well before election day.

[RockinRight]

See Loretta [s]Brixey[/s] Sanchez for another example.

[Terabitten]

That would have been because Mr Greene ran a very unconventional primary campaign, inasmuch as he ran literally no campaign whatsoever.

My only question - how much did he campaign in the black underground media? Any radio guest spots on 'urban' radio? Any spots in those weird one-sheet papers that few people read? Word of mouth?

Barring massive fraud (certainly a possibility), he had to have done something - we're just not looking in the right places yet.

[SC Swamp Fox]

....he will still get 30% to 40% of the vote.

You would be correct. SC is 29.2% black and they vote 95% Democrat. About 24% of the non-black population regularly votes for democrats and they will not vote for Jim Demint under any circumstance. They will vote for Greene or not vote in the Senate race at all.

Greene will get 30-35% of the popular vote if he stays on the ballot.

[Brilliant]

Greene looked black to Gray.

[Brilliant]

That is pretty funny. Community organizer doesn’t know who the candidates are that he’s voting for. Votes for his candidate based on whether the name sounds black or white. Ends up guessing right—votes for the black guy, but the black guy turns out to be an idiot who’s charged with a felony. How much you wanna bet this guy still hasn’t learned anything?

[Oceander]

This is the rankest episode of bare-naked racism we've seen in a long time - no surprise, of course, coming from the historically racist democrat party.

[Slings and Arrows]

o/~ Ebony and Ivory... o/~

[Slings and Arrows]

Thanks!

[Memphis Blues]

Greene is not likely to be able to find his way to DC to meet with Pelosi and Reid.