Im in SC too. Graham had 3 primary challengers that were unknown and they all split the anti graham vote. Even if you added them all together though they didnt come close. Voting is mainly about name recognition. Non informed Voters (majority) chose names they recognize in primaries. To get thier name out there they need advertising and money. Which they get from special interest groups which expect to be paid back in legislation. The election process kinda starts off corrupt from the beginning unless ya have folks who can fund thier own elections or are already well known.
We need something to primary these crappy leaders. Something like 97% of them keep getting re elected everytime. Its rediculous for a group of people who do such a shitty job and make fortunes from it at the same time. They don't work for us, yet we pay em. No wornder they spend 100 million for a job that pays a few hundred thousand.
I’ve been a SCer my whole life(40+yrs) and have always felt that all you had to do was get elected once because they always get re-elected no matter what. Joe Riley was mayor my whole life till he resigned, not got beat. And Strom Thurman was a politician till he died and he was 100+yrs old. It’s just getting past that first hurdle of getting elected once.
Im in SC too. Graham had 3 primary challengers that were unknown and they all split the anti graham vote. Even if you added them all together though they didnt come close. Voting is mainly about name recognition. Non informed Voters (majority) chose names they recognize in primaries. To get thier name out there they need advertising and money. Which they get from special interest groups which expect to be paid back in legislation. The election process kinda starts off corrupt from the beginning unless ya have folks who can fund thier own elections or are already well known.
So it would be fantastic for us to become a grassroots primary machine, able to do volunteer work and individual contributions to campaign funds etc
We need something to primary these crappy leaders. Something like 97% of them keep getting re elected everytime. Its rediculous for a group of people who do such a shitty job and make fortunes from it at the same time. They don't work for us, yet we pay em. No wornder they spend 100 million for a job that pays a few hundred thousand.
I’ve been a SCer my whole life(40+yrs) and have always felt that all you had to do was get elected once because they always get re-elected no matter what. Joe Riley was mayor my whole life till he resigned, not got beat. And Strom Thurman was a politician till he died and he was 100+yrs old. It’s just getting past that first hurdle of getting elected once.