# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/41 "2012-08-01T14:10:24Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > 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). I don’t think we can label this maroon a Democrat just yet. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/42 "2012-08-01T14:11:32Z")
> [@Boyo Jim](#): > > Pick the least crazy, or don’t vote at all. But progress in the US is so tortuously slow. I somewhat want Paul to be elected, COBRA repealed, Social Security to be dismantled and public education halted. Just for a year. Then the US could wonder what the fuck it was thinking, pick itself up and start over. Also, you could write in Jill Stein Bosda. ---
**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, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/43 "2012-08-01T14:38:15Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I don’t think we can label this maroon a Democrat just yet. I don’t think he’s _anything_… ---
**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/44 "2012-08-01T16:22:15Z")
What’s worse is they had this exact same race two years ago, and it was ugly then. Even uglier now. I only hope both get struck by lightning or something. And no matter who wins, they’ll do this again in two years. These two seem to really hate each other. Sitting here in Smyrna, and can’t even watch the news because of their constant commercials. I wish they’d just literally fight it out. ---
**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, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/45 "2012-08-01T17:47:55Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Do the locals really believe that all Muslims are terrorists and that no mosques should ever be built anywhere in the US? A ridiculously large number of them do, yes. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/46 "2012-08-01T17:54:23Z")
> [@Ruby\_Slippers](#): > > I live in the 8th District of Ohio, which is wholly owned by John Boehner. He’s unopposed on both sides of the aisle. I’m thinking I just won’t vote for that particular slot on the ballot. WHY is he unopposed? Dear Lord, can’t you sentence a local criminal to running as a Democrat? It makes me sick to think the Boehner is unopposed. Can you still turn in papers and run? ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/47 "2012-08-01T18:05:33Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > 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). OMG, that is making me re-think my opinion about basic testing of voters. From the linked article: - > [@](#): > > "Lowell Turpin, 40, was arrested on suspicion of domestic assault last week following a violent confrontation with his live-in girlfriend over what he thought was a pic of a romantic rival on her Facebook page, police said. > > The apparently news-blind boyfriend from Clinton, Tenn., “angrily demanded to know who the male was” — totally unaware that the man with the graying hair was the Republican presidential nominee, an incident report from the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department noted." - ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_N.Cheese)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/48 "2012-08-01T23:34:57Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Here in Missouri, the two main Republican Senate candidates are running adds trying to show that their opponent is more like the incumbent, Claire McCaskill. > > Although rumor has it that one of the PACs running the ad’s is actually a Democratic front, trying to get the stronger R defeated. Yeah, and the goddamned things are on all the time. “I’ll reign in government waste, cut up the government credit card, blah, blah” Look you stupid fucks, if you do get elected, you’re not going to do shit. No one in Washington is going to listen to you. You’ll have no political power at all, and when and if you finally do, you’ll be just like the rest of the career politicians. Plus we have “Governor” Sarah Palin stumping on tv for one of them and she doesn’t even pronounce the name right. She does use the phrase “Lika momma grizzly” though. And there’s the one that’s using Jimmy Hoffa in their trashy ads. :dubious: The sad part is a lot of these people eat this shit up like gospel. ---
**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 2, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939/49 "2012-08-02T02:11:27Z")
Zelenik! Black! I PIT YOU! The insides of your musty heads are exercise wheels; in which two gerbils, Vanity and Credulity by name, tussle fruitlessly over the walnut that represents your banal & pointless existences. Your feeble & palsied Goebbels act cannot fool a half-witted orphan ;which is a fair description of yourselves, and rest assured that I will pass it along to Gonorrhea Control, ASAP. THEY know how to deal with YOUR KIND. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-in-hillbilly-hell-on-election-day/629939.md?page=2)