Alvin Greene
by Josh K-sky on Jun.13, 2010, under Politics
Here’s my Alvin Greene hypothesis. I think his candidacy is cooked-up and crooked. I think his vote margin is a Dieblod artifact. I think he’s also supposed to get caught.
No one in the South Carolina GOP ever lost a minute of sleep over Jim DeMint losing his seat. Someone saw an opportunity. The stakes are low — let’s see how effectively we can sabotage a Democratic primary, let’s see what people use to figure it out (statistical analysis! recount challenges! investigative reporting!) and then when it counts, we’ll know how to do it even better.
June 18th, 2010 on 12:32 pm
Has this theory not gotten any traction? No one seems to have moved beyond the head-scratching phase of Greene, and your theory seems reasonable.
(Of course, he was also first on the ballot, and South Carolinians are not known for being especially bright about voting.) (BTW, replace “South Carolinians” with “Americans” in the previous sentence.)
June 19th, 2010 on 1:05 pm
The one big hole in it is that no one knew who his opponent was either.