If you thought Sharron Angle’s “don’t answer questions” press relations strategy was odd, you haven’t seen anything yet: MANNING, SC (WIS) – In a bizarre interview at his home in Manning, South Carolina, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Alvin Green said he is not quitting the race even after his indictment on a felony charge [...]

Things just keep going from bad to worse for South Carolina Democrats: COLUMBIA, S.C. — Longshot U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene was indicted Friday on two charges, including a felony charge of showing pornography to a South Carolina college student. A Richland County grand jury indicted Green for disseminating, procuring or promoting obscenity – a [...]

Alvin Greene is no real threat to Senator Jim DeMint: Mystery man Alvin Greene has been the subject of more media coverage this election cycle than any other political candidate, but right now he trails incumbent Republican Jim DeMint by over 40 points in South Carolina’s U.S. Senate contest. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey [...]

America’s most unlikely Senate candidate made his first campaign appearance yesterday: South Carolina Democratic Senatorial candidate Alvin Greene urged voters Sunday to “get South Carolina and America back to work” in his first major public speech since surprising the political world last month by capturing his party’s nomination. “My campaign is about … moving South [...]

Where did Alvin Greene get the $ 10,000 for his Senate filing fee ? He got from you, Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer !

Alvin Greene is running a political campaign, but it’s unlike anything anyone has ever seen before.

Nikki Haley overcame a smear campaign and religious bigotry to come one step closer to the Governor’s Mansion in South Carolina.

Yesterday, the South Carolina Democratic Party rejected a bid to overturn the results of Alvin Greene’s victory in the Senate primary: The South Carolina Democratic Party’s Executive Committee Thursday rejected a protest of the June 8 primary for U.S. Senate, in which Alvin Greene defeated Vic Rawl. The decision came down about 8:20 p.m. The [...]

Vic Rawl, the man who lost to mystery Senate candidate Alvin Greene has officially protested the outcome withe the South Carolina Democratic Party: The executive committee of the S.C. Democratic Party will meet Thursday to consider a protest Vic Rawl filed Monday after his surprise thrashing at the hands of a political unknown who is [...]

Yesterday, CNN’s Don Lemon spoke to mystery Senate candidate Alvin Greene and it may well be the most bizarre interview that Greene has given to date:

Nate Silver, the official number cruncher of the blogosphere, takes a look at the results of Tuesday’s Democratic primary in South Carolina and finds enough oddities to raise an eyebrow: It seems to me one of four things could have happened here: 1. Vic Rawl and his campaign ignored the non-candidacy candidacy of Alvin Greene [...]

As promised Alvin Greene, the mystery Democratic candidate for Senate in South Carolina appeared on Keith Olbermann’s show last night and the results were, well, interesting: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Plant, practical joke, or actual candidate, this isn’t exactly an intellectual heavyweight we’re dealing with here.

Congressman James Clyburn is a little suspicious of surprise candidate Alvin Greene: The man nominated as Democrats’ candidate for Senate in South Carolina might have been a “plant,” a high-ranking Democrat suggested Thursday. House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) called for South Carolina to investigate the circumstances that led to Alvin Greene winning the Democratic [...]

In addition to being an unemployed veteran who mounted no campaign, Democratic Senate candidate from South Carolina Alvin Greene is also facing felony charges: COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina’s surprise Democratic nominee to challenge U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint is facing a pending felony charge. Court records show 32-year-old Alvin Greene was arrested in November [...]

Whoops: An unemployed military veteran who raised no funds and put up no campaign website shocked South Carolina’s Democratic Party leadership by capturing the nomination Tuesday to face Republican U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint in November. With nearly all precincts reporting, Alvin Greene, 32, commanded 59 percent of the vote against 41 percent for former four-term [...]

Pennsylvania is Reapportionment’s version of the Biggest Loser. If projections hold, Pennsylvania will lose Congressional seats for the ninth straight Census. Smart Politics: Several projections have been conducted by experts during the last few years – with Texas and Arizona universally considered to be the big winners of multiple seats, with the remaining gains coming [...]

Now that health care reform has been revived from its near death experience, it appears that it will face a series of Constitutional challenges.  My home state of Virginia has fired the opening shot. Via Twitter, no less. To emphasize how ready Virginia is to take the health care overhaul to court, take a look [...]

One of my commenters brought to my attention an issue that’s not receiving much attention:  Residents of several U.S. states could have to show their passports for domestic travel — or to enter a federal government building — starting January 1 because of the REAL ID Act.  Chris Strohm for Congress Daily: More than half [...]

“National Democrats are considering changing the presidential nominating process, by establishing a new primary calendar and deemphasizing the influence lawmakers and political insiders have on choosing the party nominee,” CNN reports. The battle for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination was marred by controversy as the Democratic National Committee argued with some state parties over when [...]

The big news surrounding President Obama’s latest heathcare speech is that South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson shouted “You lie!” in response to the claim that illegal immigrants would not be covered under universal coverage: AP (“Obama heckled by GOP during speech to Congress“): The nastiness of August reached from the nation’s town halls into [...]

Washington Monthly has put out its annual answer to the US News college rankings, even going so far as to launch a new blog devoted to the subject. Steve Benen highlights some of the findings: * Only one of the U.S. News top ten universities — Stanford — makes the Washington Monthly‘s top ten, while [...]

I somehow missed the news yesterday afternoon that Mark and Jenny Sanford are going their separate ways: Jenny Sanford, the wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, announced Friday morning that she and their sons will leave the governor’s mansion in Columbia and settle in the Charleston area, a split that comes after the couple [...]

When news broke Monday afternoon that South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford went off the grid the previous Thursday and that neither his wife nor his staff knew where they were, I was interested but not particularly motivated to write about it.  It was essentially a gossip story that would have been purely speculative and there [...]