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« Reply #175 on: June 30, 2010, 02:38:00 pm »
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Roger Stone brings up a great point about Alvin Greene: the fact that his name begins with the letter "A" shows that he was very likely picked under the process he knows as "Aardvarking"

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In the late 1970's a Republican consultant and I examined a series of races on Long Island when two candidates who were complete unknowns and who had no campaign resources to raise their profile. In 90% of the races the candidate who's name began with A won.

We called this phenomena "Aardvarking" and urged GOP leaders to recruit candidates for lower office who's names started with the first letter of the alphabet. Why does Adam Alberts beat Ricky Jones 90% of the time? Who knows.
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« Reply #176 on: June 30, 2010, 05:06:00 pm »
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So if I ever run for office I should use my middle name,, as it starts with an A. Gotcha.
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« Reply #177 on: July 10, 2010, 11:56:08 am »
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Greene probe closed, no wrongdoing found.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39556.html
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« Reply #178 on: July 10, 2010, 10:05:31 pm »
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Quote from: Lunar on June 30, 2010, 02:38:00 pm
Roger Stone brings up a great point about Alvin Greene: the fact that his name begins with the letter "A" shows that he was very likely picked under the process he knows as "Aardvarking"

Yeah, this is why I don't think there's any big mystery about why he won.  When you have a race between two candidates, and nobody knows who either candidate is, people will just pick on some "random" basis that isn't truly random, like "Greene sounds like a better name than Rawl."  There doesn't have to be any deeper explanation than that.
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« Reply #179 on: July 10, 2010, 10:08:54 pm »
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/us/politics/11greene.html?hp
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« Reply #180 on: July 11, 2010, 10:43:37 am »
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« Reply #181 on: July 24, 2010, 08:34:05 pm »
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Come on, DSSC, this is just mean

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/23/alvin-greene-nomination-b_n_657629.html
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« Reply #182 on: July 25, 2010, 01:00:35 am »
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DSSC wouldn't have bothered with Rawl anyway
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« Reply #183 on: July 25, 2010, 10:29:51 pm »
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Quote from: © intelligent life as an evolutionary error on July 25, 2010, 01:00:35 am
DSSC wouldn't have bothered with Rawl anyway

You mean DSCC.
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« Reply #184 on: July 25, 2010, 10:35:59 pm »
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Quote from: Lunar on July 24, 2010, 08:34:05 pm
Come on, DSSC, this is just mean

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/23/alvin-greene-nomination-b_n_657629.html

Hell, I would find a way to spin this.  So that not only does Greene look like a Washington Outsider, being opposed by the party leadership might help convince the voters in SC that Greene is anti-establishment enough and would oppose the Dems due to their animosity, to support him.
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« Reply #185 on: July 25, 2010, 10:56:03 pm »
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His Facebook page (if it is his?!? LOL) is quite hilarious.
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« Reply #186 on: July 25, 2010, 10:59:10 pm »
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Quote from: Rochambeau on July 25, 2010, 10:29:51 pm
Quote from: © intelligent life as an evolutionary error on July 25, 2010, 01:00:35 am
DSSC wouldn't have bothered with Rawl anyway

You mean DSCC.

I was just copying Lunar's, it's not like I bother to know what I'm talking about in this realm.
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