Who Is Alvin Greene?

I didn't even realize today was a round of election primaries, but I liked this: some unemployed guy defeated a former legislator in South Carolina's Democratic senate primary.

Really.

With no website, zero money, and not even lawn signs, Alvin Greene won. The military veteran will face Republican Jim DeMint in November. Greene (32) commanded 59% of the vote with almost all precincts reporting, heartily beating former four-term state lawmaker Vic Rawl. Even the State Democratic Party chairwoman was confounded, postulating voters unfamiliar with either candidate may have voted alphabetically for Greene over Rawl. God, that would really put a bullet between the eyes of faith in country.

Rawl said he was disappointed, which is a gigantic understatement. "I would've liked very much to be a candidate against Jim DeMint." Rawl added of his victor, "I never saw him. I've still never met him." As for Greene, he couldn't explain it either but thanked voters in a state numb with high unemployment and said: "Let's continue to make history and get South Carolina back to work."

Greene said he spent a total of 13 years in the Air Force and Army before leaving the Army in August. Is he a patsy for the fall election? To be continued...