South Carolina Democrats are embarrassed that a barely functional guy won their Senate primary and will be their candidate against Jim DeMint in November. Alvin Greene, the winning candidate, is a black veteran and reportedly paid the filing fee with his own money and garnered 59% of the vote over a white party hack. Where are the cries of racism as the Dems seek to overturn the will of the people?
South Carolina's Democrats are poised to decide whether to overturn the results of the primary election that saw Alvin Greene, an unemployed military veteran, win the nomination for U.S. Senate.Shouldn't the NAACP or Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson be running to Greene's aid? Where's the outrage?
The state party's executive committee is meeting Thursday in Columbia to hear a protest by former state lawmaker Vic Rawl, whom Greene defeated in the June 8 primary.
Rawl has said malfunctions in voting machines or software may have caused him to lose race. He said voters have told him they meant to vote for him but saw Greene's name on their screens instead.
The executive committee could uphold the election, order a new primary or find that problems were so significant that Rawl should be declared the winner.
So far no evidence of tampering or voting abnormalities have been determined and South Carolina's Board of Elections told FoxNews.com it has no plans to investigate the vote.
Greene, who managed to win 59 percent of the vote, raised no funds and did no campaigning, baffling leaders of the South Carolina Democratic Party.
"It's very suspicious," South Carolina Democratic Party Communications Director Keina Page said in an interview last week.
U.S. House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., meanwhile, has called Greene a "plant" and has demanded an investigation into his candidacy.
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