I understand the Democratic Party has again asked him to withdraw, but he’s refused, again. Besides, we’d need a real knight in shining armor to beat Demint and I don’t think we have one. Rawl lost to Greene, remember. Plus we’d need Demint’s financial investigations to show his “discounted” C Street rent payments to the Family and I don’t think that’ll happen before November. And even if it showed Demint’s a completely dishonest fraudulent megalomaniac, South Carolinians would still vote for him. State motto: But We’ve Always Done It This Way. Demint’s raised over $3 million to beat two opponents who between them reportedly have raised about $1,000.
We can always hope for our knight and the investigation, but our brilliant Democrats put Greene in the nominee’s seat in the first place. I weep for South Carolina.
There’s some reason for skepticism about that, given SC’s use of the most hackable voting technology one could conceive - and an already-known issue with ES&S machines recording votes for the wrong candidate. Unfortunately (or by intent), that system is also unverifiable.
Obviously. But if you were running for a major federal office, would you not check into your competition? A little bit? To just see if there WAS any competition there? I agree - no one did their jobs here, including South Carolina voters. I hope they all learned something because we’re all going to be stuck with Jim “Waterloo” Demint for another six freaking years.
S.C. is going to vote for DeMint regardless of his opponent. This is the state that continued to send Strom Thurmond to D.C. years after he was verifiably senile. (I clerked for Hollings one summer when Hollings and Thurmond were still the senators from S.C., and the stories he told us of Thurmond’s senility were hilarious and horrifying at the same time).
So you’re saying that Greene* was *vetted? So who screwed up here, because he WON the competition!
I wonder what Demint is going to do with his $3 million war chest. He can take a page from the Greene playbook here. He doesn’t have to say a single word or spend a single dollar, and he’ll still win the election.
My pipe dream is that Sheheen, the Democrat, will win the governorship and Demint will be convicted of a felony. Any felony will do. Then Sheheen will name a Democrat as senator! Yes, it’s a quite a stretch that it might occur within six years, considering how slowly investigations, charges, trials, etc., move, but it’s still my dream, and it might be the only way to get a Democratic senator in South Carolina.
My best guess is that Vic Rawl just managed to piss off a lot of the electorate somehow. Certainly, it doesn’t reflect well on him that he was able to lose to someone who wasn’t running.
I misread the title as **Politically nobody wins SC Democratic US Senate nomination… after reading the thread and seeing the guy howling, I think my version of the title is accurate.
Interesting that any poor or average person seeking office has his filing fee reviewed by state officials/police; but not anyone from the political classes… ‘Mr. Kennedy, where did you find the cash to file for office ?’
‘My daddy gave it me !’
I don’t live in SC so I don’t know what 's he up to, but I do know what he’s down to: less than 30% of the voters will vote for him by 538’s model (this is a link to nytimes.com). They give him 0% chance of victory.
I think 30% is often bandied about as the percentage that will vote for Voldemort if he was nominated by the party they support, which this would seem to support. (Christine O’Donnell’s number on the same blog is currently 40% but is falling faster, and she’s also at 0% chance of winning.)
