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Vic Rawl Concedes SC-SEN Democratic Primary To Alvin Greene
TPM ^
Posted on 06/18/2010 2:49:24 PM PDT by Chet 99
Former South Carolina judge and ex-state legislator Vic Rawl has officially conceded the Democratic primary for Senate, after he had attempted to contest his upset loss to unemployed veteran Alvin Greene.
Rawl had originally insisted that there were irregularities or errors in vote-counting in his loss to Greene. A more common explanation has been that both candidates were unknown, and Greene's 60% victory owed something to his name having been listed in the first position on the ballot. And last night, the state Democratic Party upheld Greene's win, despite the embarrassment and scandals surrounding his arrest last fall on an obscenity charge.
In his statement, Rawl thanks his supporters, and announced that he will not further contest the result: "We hold our heads high, and know that the friendship of people like you is far more important in life that the outcome of any election."
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: alvingreene; concedes; democrat; democratic; democrats; greene; primary; rawl; senate; southcarolina; vicrawl
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To: Eyes Unclouded; Yardstick
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posted on
06/19/2010 4:15:05 AM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
To: wardaddy
“LOL...is it rocket science why Greene won?”
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No, except that he had zero name recognition, how did the voters know his race?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS-vdH0Q9Vg
82
posted on
06/19/2010 4:19:07 AM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
To: csvset
Don’t bother...they’re here.......
83
posted on
06/19/2010 4:21:49 AM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
To: dfwgator
“Well Johnny Mathis certainly would be a candidate that Lindsey Graham could get behind.”
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Oh, no, you didn’t. How could you go there?
84
posted on
06/19/2010 4:23:31 AM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
To: rogue yam
85
posted on
06/19/2010 4:25:32 AM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
To: webheart
“He can’t be as dumb as people say he is. At the very least, he’ll make millions of the book and movie rights.”
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I hadn’t actually thought of that but you are probably right. He could even play himself!
86
posted on
06/19/2010 4:27:24 AM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
To: SunkenCiv
Actually it is more like a three to two margin than two to one.
87
posted on
06/19/2010 4:29:32 AM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
To: rlmorel
I’ve done a little research on Greene, Franken would STILL be the dumbest guy in the room.
88
posted on
06/19/2010 4:31:26 AM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
To: RipSawyer
He could even play himself!
I'm thinking Tom Hanks in blackface. Alvin Gump.
89
posted on
06/19/2010 4:32:07 AM PDT
by
ZX12R
(IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!)
To: Charles Henrickson
Do some of these posts make you think perhaps Alvin Greene is more intelligent than some FREEPERS?
90
posted on
06/19/2010 4:34:18 AM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
To: upchuck
What I never heard mentioned was that if this one elected office voting was corrupted, then ALL the votes in that district were corrupted...you can't have just one position be corrupt and not all those votes cast in that district be corrupt!!! How dumb is that????
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posted on
06/19/2010 5:35:41 AM PDT
by
4everontheRight
("America is good. And if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Tocquevill)
To: RipSawyer
My apologies. This is interesting:
Rawl campaign manager Walter Ludwig tells POLITICO... the Rawl campaign sent 300,000 e-mails, conducted a quarter million robocalls and logged nearly 17,000 miles to Democratic events around the state.
And in one county Greene received more votes than were actually cast (sez Ludwig). And Rawl lost in another county despite having had the absentee ballots fixed in his favor in advance, oops, I mean, despite having a large margin of victory on the absentee ballots.
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posted on
06/19/2010 5:54:09 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: SunkenCiv
Merciful heavens, that sounds like a war between riggers!
93
posted on
06/19/2010 6:20:10 AM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
To: Chet 99
Let the campaigning begin!
To: Chet 99; All
The Democrats are trying to find someone to fill the shoes of Roland Burris.
95
posted on
06/19/2010 9:50:42 AM PDT
by
raptor22
(The truth will set us free)
To: raptor22; All
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posted on
06/19/2010 10:02:06 AM PDT
by
raptor22
(The truth will set us free)
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