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South Carolina Senate Race
__**Republican: Jim DeMint **__  Jim DeMint is considered to be a very conservative republican and assumed office January 3, 2005. DeMint is opposed to the spending increases of the federal government and is opposed to federal bailout for the banks and other corporations, as well as, being averse to abortions. DeMint supports school prayer and requiring all illegal immigrants in the United States to return to their home countries and apply for legal residency. Jim DeMint continues to be highly opposed to the Obama administration, and “ObamaCare.” Very recently, October 1, 2010, DeMint lost a number of supporters when he told a group of his supporters that openly homosexual and unmarried sexually active people should not be teachers, although multiple organizations asked for his apology many of his supports were lost. Jim DeMint campaign says that DeMint is a supporter of freedom and says that, “He will restore the freedom that made this country the bestcountry.”

- Jim DeMint is highly anti-Obama

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__**Democrat: Alvin Greene **__
 The Democratic nomination in this race is Alvin Greene. Greene is the first African American nomination for the U.S. Senate by a major party in South Carolina. The nomination of Greene has been shocking all around. Not only because he is the first African American, but he won the Democratic primary race against Vic Rawl with a 59% vote, having very little campaigning and campaign spending, he had no website or evenyard signs. The largest surprise in this democratic nomination is the fact that Alvin Greene is currently unemployed living his father and on August 13, 2010 announced that he had been indicted on criminal charges of showing pornographic pictures to an 18 year old college student. Greene favors to measures to lower the price of gas and supports off shore drilling, he supports finical industry reformation (by letting the Bush tax cuts expire), Greene supports alternative energy and bettering education. Alvin Greene says that there should be universal health care and we should adopt free college education. The Greene campaign slogan is “Let’s get South Carolina back to work.” Although the Greene campaign had very little campaigning they had incredible media coverage, there has been incredible amount of attention brought to him.

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__**Week One: **__ At the end of this week, from the looks of it Jim DeMint is still in the leadfor the South Carolina senator. Despite the set back that Jim DeMint caused for himself by stating that "openly gay and unmarried pregnant women should not be teaching in public schools." DeMint this week apologized for saying this and said that sometimes his heart, "disengages from my head and I say somethings that I shouldn't." Even though this would usually be a major down fall in standings, his opposition is not much better. Alvin Greene, a still very improbable candidate, is still in this race. His charges have yet to be dropped. From this week has been shown that Jim DeMint is greatly leading in this race.

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__** Week Two: **__ With only one week till the election many are making projections about the results of the election, and most are saying that Jim DeMint will for sure win this election. According to Rasmussen Reports, Jim DeMint holds a 40 point lead over Alvin Greene. Also, administered by the Rasmussen Report a telephone survey was given showing that DeMint holds 58% of the vote, while Greene holds 21%. From this week it could easily be said that Jim DeMint will most likely win this election

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__** Week Three: **__ This week the election being on Tuesday, the born tea partier Jim DeMint won the election. DeMint says that, "Americans want less government and more freedom." According to Politics Daily, "the 2010 mid-term elections may go down as historic -- not just for being a major "change" election -- but also for the number of interesting and eccentric candidates who garnered attention." This mid terms election draw more attention to the state than in past years due to the eccentric candidates and their policies. From DeMints, tea party beliefs to Greenes charges this election was anything but boring. Jim DeMint won this election by somewhat of a land slide, with a 62.4% to 23% vote.

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 * __ Results: __**


 * ~ Candidate ||~ Party ||~ Vote count ||~ Votes ||
 * Tom Clements || Green || 118,952 || 9.4% ||
 * Jim DeMint* || Republican || 792,133 || 62.4% ||
 * Alvin Greene || Democrat || 358,276 || 28.2% ||