still hopeless in south carolina
The post-mortems for a special election — one of big stature because of the Republican Comeback figure of Mark Sanford…
… he won. Â It’s South Carolina. Â The Republicans “came home”, and all that. Â Judging from the campaign comments coming out of Elizabeth Colbert Busch during the home-stretch — she was in that “finding a center of a center of a right flank” bind. Â And so Mark Sanford’s gambit of challenging a cardboard cutout of Nancy Pelosi across the state worked like a charm.
There will be a moment of partisan stoking going about … Republican spin “Even someone with Mark Sanford’s baggage”, Democratic spin is a little harder, but hinges on relative closeness, and… I don’t know… may go to “will take him on in the general election”.
Now herein lies my question. Â How did the Green Party candidate do?
And mind you… in the last two Senate elections, the Green Party is what you would have had to turn to avoid Democratic joke candidates… (“When I say ‘Alvin’, you say ‘Greene’. “) Â [Though I don’t think the Green Party had a candidate in 2008, so never mind.)
At the moment, with 91 percent of the precincts reporting… he appears to have won point five percent.
His goal of getting to the high single digits appears to have been a non-starter. Â I suppose the interesting thing about the last poll, which showed Sanford edging ahead and this candidate Eugene Platt at four percent — if the margin of error were four percent, he would indeed be within the margin of error.