# I am in Hillbilly Hell on Election Day. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 31, 2012, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939 "2012-07-31T09:44:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/21 "2012-07-31T18:34:34Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Is it too late for you to throw your hat into the ring? > [@Confused dart cum](#): > > Precisely > > OP’s complaint has no merit when this is something it’s very much in his power to solve… Requirements to get on the congressional ballot > [@Ballotpedia](#): > > State\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Signatures\_\_\_\_\_\_\_Primary\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_Requirements > > Tennessee\_\_\_\_\_4/5/2012\_\_\_\_\_\_ 8/2/2012\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ A nominating petition with at least 25 signatures from voters from the candidate’s\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ district. [54] 119 [From here.](http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Signature_requirements_and_deadlines_for_2012_U.S._Congress_elections)Point is, it’s too late, and therefore not presently within the OP’s control. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/22 "2012-07-31T19:07:45Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > Which one is better looking? Hey, these are conservative women with family values. They shouldn’t be judged on looks. They should be judged on how well they make a sandwich, mop the floor, and crap out white babies. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/23 "2012-07-31T21:01:39Z")
Hm… I’m not sure how to properly evaluate their sandwich- or baby-making skills. Maybe who has the fatter husband and/or more children? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/24 "2012-07-31T22:10:11Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Is it too late for you to throw your hat into the ring? > [@Confused dart cum](#): > > Precisely > > OP’s complaint has no merit when this is something it’s very much in his power to solve… I am a State Employee, and ineligible under Tennessee’s Little Hatch Act. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/25 "2012-07-31T22:23:35Z")
Is it worth mentioning that I was kidding? It’s waaaay too late (and too expensive) to try to jump into a race, even if you would otherwise be eligible. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/26 "2012-08-01T00:48:10Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > Which one is better looking? Ooh! The Ray Bradbury Solution. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/27 "2012-08-01T00:55:23Z")
Vote for the TeaPartier. The Republican Party needs to be destroyed, and termites in the floorboards, sugar in the gas tank, and ball bearings in the carburetor might just be the way to go. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/28 "2012-08-01T01:18:05Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Vote for the TeaPartier. The Republican Party needs to be destroyed, and termites in the floorboards, sugar in the gas tank, and ball bearings in the carburetor might just be the way to go. Yes, because insane and suicidal is a better choice over misguided and deceptive. ---
**Author:** ![keturah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e95f7d/32.png) [@keturah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keturah)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/29 "2012-08-01T01:51:25Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > I am a State Employee, and ineligible under Tennessee’s Little Hatch Act. Not to mention that I’m fairly certain that one needs to know how to apply for a car loan before their 40th birthday to be eligible. Or at least it should be. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/30 "2012-08-01T01:58:49Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Yes, because insane and suicidal is a better choice over misguided and deceptive. If your goal is destruction of the Republican Party (and that should be the goal for all right-thinking Americans), yes, it is. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/31 "2012-08-01T02:44:42Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > I am a State Employee, and ineligible under Tennessee’s Little Hatch Act. I bet that said law could not possible stand constitutional muster (not that I know anything much about the US consitution) - if needs be just run under a different name, anyway. Next time try it, why not! It’ll take you a few minutes to get the 25 sigs, then you can have the life of riley! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/32 "2012-08-01T02:53:57Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > **We have no Democrat willing to challenge them.** ☹ What chance would one have, do you think? ---
**Author:** ![nogravity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9d8465/32.png) [@nogravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nogravity)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/33 "2012-08-01T03:19:18Z")
Maybe you won’t have to worry because there’s not going to be any [elections](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/31/kelly-keisling-tennessee-obama-rumor_n_1725053.html?utm_hp_ref=politics) in November. > [@](#): > > A Republican member of the Tennessee state legislature emailed constituents Tuesday morning with a rumor circulating in conservative circles that President Barack Obama is planning to stage a fake assassination attempt in an effort to stop the 2012 election from happening. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/34 "2012-08-01T03:26:49Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Vote for the TeaPartier. The Republican Party needs to be destroyed, and termites in the floorboards, sugar in the gas tank, and ball bearings in the carburetor might just be the way to go. > [@drewtwo99](#): > > Yes, because insane and suicidal is a better choice over misguided and deceptive. > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > If your goal is destruction of the Republican Party (and that should be the goal for all right-thinking Americans), yes, it is. Sorry, kaylasdad99, you don’t destroy the Republican party by electing their craziest members to public office. I’m all in favor of having the crazies win their primaries so moderate Democrats can kick their asses in the general. But in this case, the winner cruises right into office. Pick the least crazy, or don’t vote at all. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/35 "2012-08-01T04:00:47Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > If your goal is destruction of the Republican Party (and that should be the goal for all right-thinking Americans), yes, it is. Beware. If I recall my history, wasn’t there thinking along those lines in Weimar in 1932? Something like, no people in their right minds would elect those nuts? ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/36 "2012-08-01T04:29:05Z")
> [@Confused dart cum](#): > > Precisely > > OP’s complaint has no merit when this is something it’s very much in his power to solve… When confronted with such situations the Tea Party playbook mentions a ‘second amendment solution’, whatever that is. Obviously what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/37 "2012-08-01T09:55:43Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > What chance would one have, do you think? Not much. But it’s Zelenik that scares the hell out of me. If she gets in, arson & bloodshed against the local Muslims could hap[pen. Hell, it has happened! I mean it could get worse. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/38 "2012-08-01T12:46:57Z")
Do the locals really believe that all Muslims are terrorists and that no mosques should ever be built anywhere in the US? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/39 "2012-08-01T13:25:42Z")
When I’m stuck as to who to vote for (usually some party un-affiliated thing (Second Assistant Fruit Stand Inspector At Large))) I always choose the candidate with the hardest to pronounce last name … make them suffer a little bit down a city hall. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/40 "2012-08-01T13:49:34Z")
Not [everyone](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jealous-tennessee-man-allegedly-smacks-girlfriend-a-pic-guy-facebook-page-mitt-romney-article-1.1126074) is a Republican in TN… (link is to NY Daily News website). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939.md?page=3)