The surprise winner of the South Carolina Democratic Senate primary, Alvin Greene, tells Time magazine scribe Michael Scherer that he should be Time's Man of the Year for what he has done in the election.

“I am the best candidate for the United States Senate in South Carolina,” he tells Scherer in the piece that hits newsstands Friday. “And I am also the best person to be Time magazine's Man of the Year.”

Adds Scherer: “Greene's election has become a who-done-it of the political year, with a formal protest filed with the state Democratic Party, a legal challenge before the Federal Election Commission and endless local chatter about how a man with no real campaign, who gets information ”mainly" from television, defeated the party-endorsed standard bearer, a retired judge who had printed 10,000 bumper stickers, logged 17,000 miles crisscrossing the state in his hatchback, and paid for a 220,000 autodial phone calls before election day."