The disturbing South Carolina Senate race has puzzled even the most clever of political commentators. How, everyone wonders, could an unknown, unemployed, South Carolina man facing a felony sex charge win an impressive 51% of the Democratic Senate primary? Vic Rawl, the defeated candidate, certainly expresses his skepticism in the validity of Green’s victory, along with South Carolina Representative Jim Clyburn. The outcome of the situation, whether it be honest, yet certainly strange victory, or, more plausibly, a voting fraud, yields a terrible truth about American democracy: it does not work.

Tim Bridgewater: A Modern Example of Gallant Magnanimity
There isn’t a plethora of people in the global, national, or regional spotlight nowadays that take public loss well. As a matter of fact, there hasn’t been a great number of those in many a-year. Napoleon Bonaparte comes to mind. He was eventually defeated, sent into exile on Elba, escaped and remained at large – seizing control of the government and going on the offensive – for 100 days before being forced to surrender (Waterloo) and sent to final exile on St. Helena, …