It's sleazy being Green

In a "first-past-the-post" election, the winner doesn't need more than half the votes to win. The successful candidate just needs more votes than his competitors. Conservative Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) is in trouble and it would appear that he will not be successful in his re-election bid so... his supporters have funded a voter signature drive for a Green Party candidate in hopes of siphoning away support for his Democratic opponent.

And they didn't just help... as Paul Keil at TPMMuckraker tells us:

Every single contributor to the Pennsylvania Green Party Senate candidate is actually a conservative -- except for the candidate himself.

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That leaves only one contribution, for $30, as a legitimate donation from a Green Party supporter. That came from the candidate himself, Carl Romanelli. He made it to his own campaign fund, not the local Green Party.