By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |  More than 100,000 South Carolinians may have bought a pig in a poke in the recent GOP primary.  They voted for Greenville businessman John Warren, a political neophyte who joined the state’s gubernatorial race just a few months back and who reportedly has pumped $3 million of his own money into winning.

He is, if you didn’t know, a Marine.  That’s about all we really know about him, as he repeatedly says in television ads.

The term “pig in a poke” is an English idiom from the Middle Ages, a time when meat often was scarce.  Tricksters would offer suckling pig in a closed bag to customers.  Many times, however, the bag contained the meat of some other animal.