Alvin Greene Campaign Ad

I chose Alvin Greene not just because of the fact that he is a young (33 years old) black democrat but also because of how unconverntional his rise to become a senate has been. Alvin Greene gained nationwide attention in 2010 after running for the United States Senate in the state of South Carolina.

Alvin Greene, was unemployed, lived in his parents' house and had no history of political activity. But he did have a cheque for $10,400, the required entry fee for the Democratic primary. After handing over the cheque and insisting that his photo be posted on the party's website, Greene disappeared and was never seen again. Until when Greene received 59% of the primary votes – nearly 100,000 in total – to win the Democratic nomination.

How could a candidate who without campaigning, advertising or having a website, win a state-wide contest? His only rival, Vic Rawl, was an established local politician and former judge, who raised nearly $200,000 on his election campaign.
It gets all the more strange considering that Greene has been unemployed since last August, when he left the US army. He lives with his elderly father in rural South Carolina, without a computer or even a mobile phone.

 Where-as the vast majority of other candidates campain advertisements are funded by themselves and are made to look very professional, Alvin Greene's looks amateurish and rely's on clips from the media mentioning his name and the situation, it doesn't really tell you what his aims or views are as such in much detail. Eventhough he did not win a seat on the senate why were people voting him? was it because he was an african american? a democrat? or just perhaps to mock the system?