A REVIEW OF PRIMARY SEASON (PART 3)

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SOUTH CAROLINA

Over the past year, South Carolina politics has been in the news. The only time we ever hear about South Carolina is in the ever important Republican Presidential Primary. Since first being held in 1980, the winner of the South Carolina Republican Presidential Primary has gone on to receive the party’s nomination. The reason being is because of the Bob Jones University, an über-conservative university. Whichever candidate gets the endorsement from this university, they go on to win the Republican nomination in part due to its Evangelical founding and base.

We already know the details of Governor Mark Sanford’s hike down the Appalachian Trail trip to embrace his Argentinean mistress. I don’t think that the governor cheating on his wife was what got people mad, but at the great lengths he took to lie about the affair.

But we are talking about Primary Elections and the one story that has brought the Palmetto State back into the news cycle was the election of Alvin Greene in the Democratic Primary for US Senate.

The first question everyone asked was: Who is Alvin Greene?

From what it sounded like, Alvin Green was a success story. An unemployed veteran who ran his campaign out of his parent’s house and was able to topple the establishment without having to spend a dime.

Then the stories came out about how he was able to get the filing fee ($10,400), the story of him exposing an 18 year old University of South Carolina female student to pornography, and finally accusations by the State Democratic Party that he was a Republican plant.

Fivethirtyeight.com does lend some interesting insight to what happened statistically in the election.

Overall, I think this will be an interesting general election race to follow as a new comer takes on the establishment candidate, this time Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC). Even though polling has the incumbent favored by a large margin, nothing would surprise me.

After all… this is South Carolina.

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