With that being said if f a halfway competent third party candidate is on the ticket I could see Greene not getting out of the 20's.
There is a Green Party candidate.
Rawl had been nominated as the Working Family Party convention. SC permits fusion, but also has a law that says that if a candidate loses one nomination, he loses them all. So Rawl can't run as the Working Family party candidate.
In 2008, Eugene Platt filed to run in the Democratic primary for a state legislative seat. He then won the Working Family and Green Party nomination (by convention), and later lost the Democratic Primary.
The Democratic Party sued to knock him off the general election ballot and the case is still under litigation. It was a close enough seat that a Green candidate could have flipped the race to the Republicans.
Some have suggested that if someone were going to "plant" a candidate wouldn't it be appropriate to choose some named "Greene". But if the Green Party wanted to tweak the Democrats, wouldn't they choose someone named "Greene" as well, and then massively vote in the Democratic primary?
Another possible source is Brian Ryan Doyle who was a candidate for Congress in the 3rd district. Earlier this year he sued the Democratic Party to get on the ballot. The party later backed off, but refused to put his picture on the web site.
Doyle is black and a radio talk show host who has had a number of legal and financial battles.
He is now calling for the chair of the SC Democratic party to resign because of her failure to get behind the party's senatorial candidate.
