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Mount Pleasant, S. C.--The usual insurgent candidate's strategy, which has not actually worked in 20 years in the GOP, is to score upsets in Iowa and New Hampshire.
At every point, Smiley upsets the usual expectations.
Critics claim the process is too susceptible to monied interest groups and upsets the "checks and balances of the legislative process."
If it rains in Northern California, Republicans Matt Fong and Dan Lungren could win upsets.
The idea is simple: Given "the end of racism," or at least the end of "irrational" discrimination, minority bellyaching only upsets what would otherwise be the proper social equilibrium.