So, an interesting experience today: I was working the polls with my teacher endorsement cards, and next to me were two college classmates of our Republican Congressional candidate, passing out flyers against him.
Madison Cawthorn went to a small, conservative Christian college for a semester, where he was loathed. One of his classmates told me that her friend was sexually assaulted by Cawthorn in his truck, and that in a history class, he declared, “If I had been a slave-owner and my slaves had run away, I would have killed them.” For her–and for Cawthorn’s other classmate that was there, and apparently for other classmates I heard were at other polling sites–it’s very personal. They might be conservative Christians, but that’s a point against voting for someone who assaults women and lies about acceptance to naval academy and misrepresents his college time.
Never before have I seen this sort of poll worker.