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[QUOTE="Queen, post: 88398, member: 27"]
A fluke Senate primary win in 2010 turned an unemployed, zero-effort candidate into the most covered politician in America, and the story only got weirder from there.

Alvin Greene's improbable primary victory
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[*]Alvin M. Greene won South Carolina's Democratic Senate primary.
[*]Greene spent roughly $10,440 and ran zero campaign events.
[*]He owned no cellphone, no computer, and hired no staff.
[*]Pew ranked him the most-covered candidate that cycle.
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How a ghost campaign actually won
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[*]Greene's name appeared first alphabetically on the ballot.
[*]His opponent, Vic Rawl, had held 80 campaign events.
[*]Nobody could coherently explain the outcome afterward.
[*]Greene insisted voters simply agreed with his positions.
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Controversies surfaced immediately after the primary
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[*]A felony obscenity charge emerged involving a college student.
[*]The Army had involuntarily discharged him months earlier.
[*]Jim Clyburn demanded a probe into possible Republican mischief.
[*]Investigators cleared Greene's finances of any wrongdoing.
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General election and life afterward
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[*]Jim DeMint crushed Greene 61 percent to 27 percent.
[*]Greene stayed unemployed from that point until his death.
[*]He died on March 3 in Manning, South Carolina, at 48.
[*]A later state House bid netted him just 37 votes.
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