The man is clearly bipolar or similar. Can we please stop making fun of him?

They say he's a vet, was he actually in combat? I heard the series on traumatic brain injury on NPR the other day and he sounds kind of like the victims they talked to. Something is wrong with his eyes too, they point outward from each other instead of converging.

Alvin Greene is the most refreshing breath of clean air to arise from South Carolina ever. His rural roots, Political Science Degree and Military Service set him apart from the business as usual politicians. This man takes the time to think before he holds forth and we can expect great things from him. Yes, I support him fully, as do the majority of folk in South Carolina.

He's a modern-day Chauncey Gardener.

Obviously, this guy CAN compete against DeMent(ed).
Would SC be any worse off ???????

As he noted, "60% is not little". Are there no exit polls from SC? Can't we go ask 6 out of every 10 democrats in SC why they voted for him in the primary?

His sizeable victory with no campaign certainly doesn't reflect well on his opponent.

I have a feeling that he won the primary thanks to Diebold. Otherwise, 60% of voters in the primary voted for someone who they didn't know. who did no campaigning, who has little or no grasp of any issues, and whose name was first on the ballot.

I can see a protest vote for someone like him, who has no political background or any apparent connections to special interests, getting maybe 10-15%. But 60%?!? Something's rotten in the State of Sanford.

Gotta hand it to the two SC Dems who didn't vote for him.

Has anybody done independent polling in SC to find out if 6o% of the dems actually did vote for him? Could this be a combination GOP plant/voting machine fix?

As the guy on the Qwest commercial says, weird.

Third for that.

It's time for the entire Democratic establishment in South Carolina to resign in shame.

What a disgrace.

Either way: If they saw this guy coming, they're idiots. If they didn't see this guy coming, they're idiots.

While Greene had virtually no campaign and therefore no name recognition, apparently his opponent had only about 20% name recognition, and of that 20%, only 1/4 of those people gave him a positive approval rating. So maybe it shouldn't be surprising that the guy with 0.01% name recognition won the race against the guy with 20% name recognition, 3/4 of it negative.

This is a product of DIEBOLD and DIEBOLD is a wholly owned subsidiary of the GOP.

Hey Reasonal, here's why the conservative gangsters would bother to screw with the voting machine software:
Conservative magazine National Review published a South Carolina poll from May 18th, the SC Index, done by Crantford Research. It showed Jim Demint at 50%, Democrat Vic Rawl 43%, Alvin Greene 7%. Who's gonna tell me Alvin Greene's support went from One-Sixth of Vic Rawl's support to whomping him by 20 points in less than one month -- when he didn't even campaign and nobody knows who he is? COME ON. I don't care who gave Greene the $10,000 to get on the ballot -- South Carolinians Did Not Vote for Alvin Greene.
Somebody hacked into the central computer software that runs the South Carolina voting machines. It's not that hard for a knowledgeable, devious person to do. It's been done before. And I bet those computer jokesters in the SC Repub. party are laughing their heads off right now.

I say way to go Tim Kaine! You're doing a bang up job of organizing. I like to think that, somehow, Howard Dean would have sniffed this guy out and avoided this embarrassing debacle.

I think we should rally behind Greene and end the DeMint insanity. Poetic justice, no?

And I think we should take a cue from the crescent moon on the state flag and start referring to it as Saudi Carolina.

Finally, we should ask them to secede again, but this time we should let them go.

I watched the KO interview as well as the other one and I have a couple thoughts:

1. This guy is not your seasoned politician (No big surprise there.) but that also means he doesn't know how to speak in front of people, give an interview, or "seem like a politician" (on the outside)


2. In the KO interview, he answered a good number of the questions with a simple Y/N answer. He didn't filibuster the interview by smearing his opponent. Quite frankly, that makes for boring tv and we all know that if you make for boring tv you must be a **tard. (sarcasm on the tard part)


3. i don't think he's a plant, i think he's just a dude that thinks he won. He may not have won, but i don't think he colluded to win.


4. He is what Americans are. He doesn't seem too bright, kinda oblivious to whats really going on, has some bizarro sense of entitlement, and doesn't feel he needs to explain himself.

I have nothing against Mr. Greene. He is focused on getting South Carolina back to work because he and much of the rest of South Carolina needs a job.

I think the more interesting aspect of this story is South Carolina law: (excerpt from HuffPo)

"Court records show Greene was arrested in November and charged with showing obscene Internet photos to a University of South Carolina student, then talking about going to her room at a university dorm.

Charged with disseminating, procuring or promoting obscenity, Greene could face up to five years in prison. He has yet to enter a plea or be indicted.
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South Carolina state law prohibits convicted felons from serving in state office. Felons can serve in federal office, although the U.S. House or Senate could vote to expel any member deemed unfit to serve."

College-age women exposed feloniously to dirty photographs. That is a vital concern. I am sure Mr. Greene has a legislative objective in mind.

According to WaPo:

"There's only $114 in his campaign bank account, he says, and the only check he ever wrote from it was to cover his filing fee . . ."

"He has no cellphone and no computer, except the one at the public library . . ."

"A campaign flier lies on the table. 'Satin green,' he says proudly. 'It's pretty. I like that.' Greene won't say who printed it or where it was distributed. He cautions that it's his only copy and should be handled with care. Asked how many fliers were printed, he says 'hundreds,' then pauses.

" 'Maybe thousands. Hundreds. Maybe a hundred. I don't know exactly.' "

And as if all that isn't strange enough, he also paid $10,000 in March to get on the ballot even though he had a felony obscenity charge hanging over his head since November ... ?

Is a puzzlement.

What I wonder: How did an unknown get 60% of the vote?

Coupled with this: How ubiquitous are electronic voting machines in SC?

The conspiracy theorist in me fancies that Greene's victory was cooked up as a dry run to test the feasibility of manipulating elections via computer hanky panky, with an eye toward, for example, ensuring that Nikki Haley would lose any potential run-off election.

Heck, voting machine hacking may even have been used to keep her below 50 percent, forcing a run-off. I'm in tinfoil hat territory, I realize ... but then again, we're talking about South Carolina.

I don't agree with the blog's statement that this is in the news in a big way:

[But his story has captured our interest, and that of cable news, in a big way]

It's not on CNN and if it's not on CNN, it's not on cable news in a big way. Least I have not seen it on CNN.

Almost non-news really.....however it is interesting should the story presented here be true.

Getting money from his parents would be okay. Getting it from someone unrelated, not so much:

SECTION 7-25-200. Unlawful inducement to file for or withdraw from candidacy for election.

(A) It is unlawful to offer or accept, or attempt to offer or accept, either directly or indirectly, money, a loan of money, or any other thing of value which includes, but is not limited to, employment or the promise of employment to induce a person to file or withdraw as a candidate for any state or federal elected office.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit legitimate campaign contributions or the pledge to make a campaign contribution as otherwise allowed by law. Nor shall this section prevent a person from paying from his own funds, the filing fee of an immediate family member which means a spouse, child, grandchild, mother, father, sister, or brother.

Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than one year.

(B) The Attorney General or the solicitor of the judicial circuit in which the violation occurred, shall prosecute immediately a person violating the provisions of this section.

(C) Nothing in this section shall preclude appropriate civil remedies by an aggrieved party. The court shall, upon a finding that a person violated the provisions of this section, award reasonable attorney's fees and the costs of bringing such action as determined by the court.

Alvin Greene is my hero. He saw an opportunity to run against an otherwise unopposed political candidate. No political office should be given away simply because only one individual registered as a candidate for that office.

The original intent of our founding fathers, when they established our democratic system was for the common man to hold political office. The plan wasn’t to have life-long professional politicians hold offices until retirement age.

I must admit it is somewhat odd that he is being as quiet about his win, lack of campaign and his past in general. The fact he has a felony charge against him pending trial is also a concern. The thing to remember though is that a charge and a conviction are two totally different things. There doesn’t seem to be much information about the circumstances surrounding Mr. Greene’s felony charge except that he showed what’s been described as a pornographic website to a college student. How is it that he presented this website to this student? What was the situation that led to this occurrence? I doubt Mr. Greene randomly picked someone from a crown and showed them this alleged pornographic website.

The position of the S.C. Democratic Party asking Mr. Greene to withdraw, after winning an uncontested election, is ludicrous. I believe the Democratic Parties position is solely based on the fact someone they know nothing about upset the apple cart by winning a race they thought was pre-determined.

Depending on the outcome of the felony charge against Mr. Greene, if it turns out the charge is dropped, I will vote for him. He can’t possibly be any worse than the majority of the individuals currently holding political office here in South Carolina.

Mr. Greene is testing the authenticity of the American democracy if he's legitimate. I'm really looking forward to seeing how this plays out.

Yes he is... or is it yes we can ?
If you ask any questions you are a bigggggot.
The difference between Alvin and J. Clyburn is Al is........ No difference.

Here is Alvin Greene when he is more comfortable and being treated fairly. Cleve Brown does a very good job and reports fairly -- notes thast Greene refuses to discuss how he campaigned --not as MSM would have it that he can't say how he campaigned:

UPDATE: News 2 tracks down, questions “mystery” Senate candidate Alvin Greene

Fox News Channel reported the Greene porn angle. No mention whatsoever of the GOP election ratfucking angle.

More fair and balanced journalism from FNC.

Whether you buy or don't buy all the comments on Greene - where'd the entrance fee, whether his eyes point outwards, whether his straightforward answers are dumb or refreshingly simple - there's this big feature about the whole story: the political establishment and much of the media are freaked out. It seems they are freaked by someone getting so much play without receiving or spending a whole lot of money. The possibility of someone getting in the game without them is the ring of doom.