In one of the night’s big nailbiters, DeMint has eked out a victory.
http://www.thestate.com/2010/11/02/1542244/demint-easily-wins-2nd-term-for.html
These articles with only 10 of 46 counties reporting (according to the SC Election Commission website at this moment) really tick me off. Or maybe DeMint just really ticks me off. Or maybe the voters of SC. Or something. GRRRR!
Why must one chose?
sorry, double post
Greene does appear to have carried ten counties. Also, the Green candidate, Tom Clements, is pulling about 10% statewide.
I hope one day the people of South Carolina finally realize how much maintaining the status quo has done to assure their place at the bottom of every metric for success. Well done, dipshits!
It looks like Greene managed to carry nearly 30% of the vote statewide and about 60 percent in some counties, which, all things considered, really isn’t that bad.
I would have figured that a lot of Dems who couldn’t stomach Demint would just end up voting for the Green Party candidate. Just goes to show how many people vote straight ticket or are just willing to support their guy no matter what.
Maybe they’d rather have an idiot and hope their party can offer him “advice” rather than the sure-fire crapfest of the other party.
I’m assuming that most of the people who voted for him (this time around) regarded it as a protest vote.
A lot of people don’t really pay much attention to politics and don’t know much if anything about the people on the ballot other than their party affiliation.
That plus some of the factors people mentioned earlier.
Here’s a story from Gawker that offers some interesting perspective.
It turns that he received more votes than Sharon Angle, Chris Coons and Joe Manchin, among others.
Yeah, he only received 30 percent of the vote, but again not bad for someone who had no funds, did almost no campaigning, had no real base to speak of, was largely seen as a simpleton and had an obscenity charge to boot.
Then you don’t know South Carolina. Not a lot of thought goes into voting there. It’s how we got Alvin Greene as a candidate in the first place. And it’s not just the Democrats.
“GRRRR?” Didn’t you mean “Nooooooooo!” and “Goooooooo!”
He had a plea date hearing for the obscenity charge yesterday. Here’s what he had to say:
http://www.free-times.com/index.php?cat=1992209084141467&act=post&pid=11861611103888857
BTW, he pled not guilty.
He got more votes than the actual, legitimate, previous-Congressman Democratic Senate candidate in Florida did. I wish that were more of a surprise, but it’s not.
In fairness, Marco Rubio is like, ohmigod, soooo cute.
Greene v Palin in 2012. That would be Dems best against Repubs best. A race for the ages.
Greene won 87% of the black vote (only a bit below average for a Dem), and 12% of the white vote (abysmal for a Dem). South Carolina is 30% black, so the majority of Greene’s votes were due to racial tribalism. No further idiocy or shenanigans necessary.