Mississippi Democrat who didn't even bother to vote wins primary for governor

[ghostsinthemachine]

Disaster struck for Mississippi Democrats on Tuesday night, when an ultra-Some Dude named Robert Gray managed to win the party's nomination for governor. Gray is a truck driver and retired firefighter who spent no money and admitted that he didn't even bother to vote for himself in the primary. Yet despite being utterly unknown, he took 51 percent, while attorney Vicki Slater, who had the backing of whatever remains of the Democratic establishment, wound up with just 30 percent. (Physician Valerie Short finished with 19.)

No one knows how Gray might have managed this—he's so obscure that no one could even find a photo of him online—but it's reminiscent of the bizarre case of Alvin Greene, the unemployed veteran who somehow pulled together the $10,000 filing fee necessary to run for Senate in South Carolina, then blew past former state Rep. Vic Rawl in the Democratic primary back in 2010. Greene, who was invisible on the campaign trail until his unlikely win, became best-known for his unorthodox ideas on stimulating the economy. ("Another thing we can do for jobs is make toys of me, especially for the holidays. Little dolls. Me. Like maybe little action dolls. Me in an army uniform, air force uniform, and me in my suit.&quot He was, naturally, destroyed in the general election.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/05/1409081/-Mississippi-Democrat-who-didn-t-even-bother-to-vote-wins-primary-for-governor?detail=facebook#

[jaysunb]

1. My birth State remains a sick joke. n/t

[Egnever]

2. Pretty easy to figure that one out

The names in both of those cases could easily cause people to vote for them.

Vicki Slater is clearly a woman's name while Robert Gray sounds pretty mainstream. We are talking about Mississippi here.