Who is Alvin Greene?

So just who the heck is Alvin Greene?

The quick facts so far...

• Greene's the democratic nominee for US Senate.
• He's an unemployed Army veteran with an involuntary but honorable discharge in August of last year.
• He was arrested for felony obscenity charges in November and is still facing an indictment from - according to the AP - "show[ing] photos to a woman and talked about going to her room at a university dorm."
• He didn't campaign in any outwardly visible sense.
• What he did do - pay the initial $10,400 filing fee - came from a personal check.
• His answers to Keith Olberman in the above interview are comedically brief, uncharacteristically so for a politician seeking office.
• He whomped his opponent by a 59-41% margin.
• He didn't have a campaign website or run any print or video ads for his campaign.
• Greene raised $114 in campaign funds.
• Greene doesn't crack a smile in either of the videos that I've seen of him.

All kinds of possibilities exist...

• The man's an incredibly private person who doesn't want to talk about all his hard work behind the scenes.  Yet he's running for a very public office.
• Somebody is putting up a patsy to get slaughtered by the Republican nominee.
• The 'e' at the end of the last name Greene identified Greene as African-American which identified with a largely African-American electorate.  (Not my theory, by the way)
• Something horrifically fishy is going on.
• Mr. Smith really is going to Washington.
• The open primary system - allowing anyone to vote in the Democratic primary of South Carolina, mentioned right at the end of of Olberman's interview - let a lot of Republicans cross over and vote for Alvin Greene.