Seriously, in a not-too-hot primary in a not-so-big state, somebody can win just by nailing a couple of key districts, so I’d say it’s a vagary of party primary politics and non-compulsary elections, among other things…
Well the plot thickens.
http://www.wltx.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=88409&catid=2
Dude’s got a pending felony charge. Great. It’d sure be interesting to be a fly on the wall at a state party meeting right now. I know there was only a 5% chance of the Demint losing anyway, but dammit I wanted my 5% chance!
From the link:
He’s accused of showing Internet photos to a University of South Carolina student. The felony charge carries up to five years in prison.
WTF kinda crime is that? If the gal is in college, she’s most likely old enough to see porn and/or copulate at will.
An obscenity charge - that’s going to sting.
This was South Carolina. Judging by Gyrate’s post earlier, this could be a Carl “HORSE PORN” Paladino* thing.
*Yes, that is officially his name now. Carl “HORSE PORN” Paladino.
You know they aren’t going to play up that portion of it. The word felony is in there, and that’s going to hurt. What might be useful is to use it to bar him from the full race, putting Vic Rawl back in if the DNC thinks he has better chances. Then again, if people would rather vote for a complete unknown rather than you, I’d guess you aren’t well liked.
:eek::eek:
Let the record reflect that I said “Eww” in as masculine a manner as possible.
This is hilarious, or it would be if… nah, it’s still hilarious.
BTW, he’s not going to get squat from the DNC unless his poll numbers are good enough. A good friend of mine was the Dem candidate for Congress a few years back in a district where the GOP candidate has handily won for decades. He was told that he would get money for having poll numbers at a certain level at certain times. He did get lots of free advice from some high profile people but that was it at the national level.
I’m not sure I buy the “voting randomly” or “voting alphabetically” argument. I’d expect that the sorts of people who would turn out for an off-year primary election would be at least somewhat informed on the candidates (even if that “information” consists of just knowing who their media of choice told them to vote for), and US Senator has to be pretty close to the top of the ballot. I’d think that the people who genuinely didn’t know who either candidate was, or who didn’t care, would just stay home.
The only scenario that seems plausible to me is that this was driven by cross-party votes from folks who actually support DeMint, and want him to face the weakest opposition possible.
The whole thing reminds me of the US Representative general election here in Montana, two years ago. The Democratic challenger to Republican incumbent Denny Rehberg literally spent zero dollars on his campaign. He had no ads, no fliers, even his official campaign website was on a free webhost. If he had any sort of word-of-mouth operation going, it was a pretty pathetic one, given that it didn’t even penetrate to this college town. He didn’t win, but he did manage to take about a third of the vote, which says to me that a third of Montanans will either blindly vote for whichever name has a D next to it, or really hate Rehberg.
Apparently he was kicked out of the army as well, unflattering stuff is coming out pretty quickly now since candidates thought to have no chance of winning don’t get vetted that well.
A Columbia station did an interview with him today that they will be airing tonight, so we’ll have some video soon to see just how trainwrecky the situation is.
And even crazier, the party is now asking him to step down. Just bizarre.
I dunno anything about Rawl, but he’s gotta be feeling like something the cat did and forgot to cover up about now.
I haven’t stopped laughing since I read this.
BTW how many senators from south carolina have been black felons?
South Carolina has never had a black senator, so I’m going to guess the number is approximately zero.
I heard he prefers Carl “INTERSPECIES EROTICA” Paladino. And Randall says the horse’s name is Kelly.
I’m pretty sure that even implying such a thing about a South Carolina senator would get one savagely beaten with a cane.
It has nothing to do with her age. You’re not allowed to go around showing pornography to adults against their will.
The Georgia one was a mule.
A complete unknown who didn’t campaign, give a speech or make any signs wins the South Carolina Democratic Senate race. After giving the party a shock (the leading, now defeated, candidate, Vic Rawl, was readying for the general election), it was discovered that Alvin Greene has a pending felony charge. Supposedly, he has refused to withdraw from the race. OK, so what can the South Carolina Democratic Party do?
Eh, just run him. If he won the primary without campaigning at all imagine what he’ll do to Jim DeMint*.
assuming DeMint’s oh-so-predictable gay sex scandal* breaks before he gets re-elected.
**yes, I’m serious.