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What Is Going On in South Carolina?
The Atlantic ^ | June 12, 2010 | Chris Good

Posted on 06/12/2010 5:40:24 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar

Alvin Greene has been accused of being a plant, and, honestly, it's an accusation that may not be too far from reality. After winning the state's Democratic Senate primary with over 100,000 votes, becoming the challenger for Republican Jim DeMint, the 32-year-old unemployed veteran has given interviews and appeared on TV. When asked about his campaign, he does not give answers that indicate he ran a real one.

James Clyburn, the House Democratic whip and nine-term congressman from South Carolina, has suggested someone propped Greene up to defeat Vic Rawl, a member of the Charleston County Council and a former four-term state legislator, calling for an investigation into the election. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has obliged; according to the South Carolina Democratic Party, an investigation has been opened.

This interview with Keith Olbermann is difficult to watch. In it, Greene insists he's always been a Democrat and that his 58% victory was not a fluke.

This interview with The Root, similarly, is a strange read. Greene seems well intentioned, wanting to be elected because of the state's high unemployment race, and insisting that he campaigned hard across the state.

There is precedent of "planted" candidates in South Carolina: in 2007, Ken Silverstein wrote in Harper's about Rod Shealy, a South Carolina political strategist who has actually done with someone else what is being suggested was done with Greene:

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: alvingreene; wca
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1 posted on 06/12/2010 5:40:24 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar

I have a new tagline.


2 posted on 06/12/2010 5:41:37 PM PDT by Persevero (Replace Howard Dean with Alvin Greene!)
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To: Jet Jaguar; Tax-chick; Constitution Day
Greene seems well intentioned, wanting to be elected because of the state's high unemployment race...

Forget South Carolina. WTF's going on over at The Atlantic?

3 posted on 06/12/2010 5:43:12 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Persevero

:0)


4 posted on 06/12/2010 5:43:28 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (*)
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To: Jet Jaguar

I think we all know what happened in South Carolina.....

;-)


5 posted on 06/12/2010 5:45:09 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Are You Ready?)
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To: martin_fierro
WTF's going on over at The Atlantic?

Are you SURE you want to know the answer to that question?

6 posted on 06/12/2010 5:45:39 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Typical leftist elitism and hypocrisy.
How do they know that Alvin Greene saved up his money and ran? Do they assume that because he's unemployed and black he's supposed to spend it already?

7 posted on 06/12/2010 5:45:58 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Jet Jaguar

I’m sure Mr. Greene is sincere in that he wants to do something positive for S Carolina, but at the same time I am sure he doesn’t have a clue about anything. He comes across as someone who fell off the turnip truck. His story reads like The Onion put him up to this. Swiss cheese doesn’t have this many holes. I’ve listened to two painful interviews. Involuntarily severed from two armed services? Obscenity felony charge against him? He’s probably a nice guy but somewhere common sense has to take over.


8 posted on 06/12/2010 5:48:43 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Even the earth is bipolar.)
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To: martin_fierro

LOL!


9 posted on 06/12/2010 5:48:44 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (*)
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To: Jet Jaguar

If they investigate this, I want also John McCain’s nomination in 2008 investigated, a confused man who was guaranteed to lose.


10 posted on 06/12/2010 5:50:11 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: BipolarBob

The ‘rat party has a bimodal distribution of voters wrt education and income. It’s about time they started running some candidates from the non-limo side.


11 posted on 06/12/2010 5:52:18 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I think we all know what happened in South Carolina.....
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NO, we do not all know what happened in South Carolina....

If you know, then why don’t you tell us what happened in SC...


12 posted on 06/12/2010 5:53:56 PM PDT by LaMudBug
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To: Jet Jaguar

If Alvin won because of black voters voting black it serves them right!


14 posted on 06/12/2010 5:56:20 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Let’s assume for the sake of argument that Alvin Green is a plant.

That might explain how he got on the ballot.

But it doesn’t explain how he got fifty-eight percent of the vote.

Are they suggesting that all of the VOTERS were plants, also?


15 posted on 06/12/2010 5:56:45 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: LaMudBug

Well, it sounds to me like organized crossover voting in a primary to get a candidate elected that can’t possibly win in the general election.

I know folks that do this in my state, but it has never had the desired effect.


16 posted on 06/12/2010 5:58:45 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Are You Ready?)
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To: Baynative

Heck, Greene now has a plethora of executive experience. He’s also wearing a nice US Flag pin.


17 posted on 06/12/2010 5:59:05 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: BipolarBob
I am sure he doesn’t have a clue about anything. He comes across as someone who fell off the turnip truck.

Statements that also describe South Carolina's Democrat electorate. LOL! He won! Elections have consequences!

18 posted on 06/12/2010 5:59:21 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

That is EXACTLY how I think he was elected - because of the color of his skin.


19 posted on 06/12/2010 6:00:47 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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To: Jet Jaguar
...wanting to be elected because of the state's high unemployment race...

Freudian slip? Tsk, tsk The Atlantic. That's not very tolerant.

20 posted on 06/12/2010 6:00:54 PM PDT by Doohickey (I try to take my days one at a time, but occasionally several days attack me at once.)
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