# Ryan's neighbors mostly didn't vote for him **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 17, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryans-neighbors-mostly-didnt-vote-for-him/641341 "2012-11-17T20:09:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryans-neighbors-mostly-didnt-vote-for-him/641341/1 "2012-11-17T20:09:41Z")
From [this LA Times article](http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-paul-ryan-wisconsin-election-2016-20121114,0,3915876.story), data from the county clerk of his polling place says that: [QUOTE=LA Times] . . . in Janesville proper, Ryan fared only a little better in his congressional run than he did in the vice presidential one. Zerban [his opponent] grabbed 54% of the Janesville vote to 44% for Ryan. And at the Hedberg library polling spot, Ryan was the choice of just 41% of voters to 58% for Zerban. [/quote] Somehow this doesn’t surprise me, though I thought that candidates just automatically won their hometowns. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryans-neighbors-mostly-didnt-vote-for-him/641341/2 "2012-11-17T20:13:14Z")
(Sorry–Could a moderator please fix the typo in the title?) ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryans-neighbors-mostly-didnt-vote-for-him/641341/3 "2012-11-17T20:52:57Z")
I seem to recall that this is the same neighborhood he grew up in. I suspect most of the neighbors know the story about what he did to the neighborhood pets. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryans-neighbors-mostly-didnt-vote-for-him/641341/4 "2012-11-17T21:49:13Z")
Well, I don’t know the story – what is it? ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryans-neighbors-mostly-didnt-vote-for-him/641341/5 "2012-11-17T21:55:31Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Well, I don’t know the story – what is it? That was a joke. I was suggesting that young Ryan was on track to be a serial killer. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryans-neighbors-mostly-didnt-vote-for-him/641341/6 "2012-11-17T23:18:15Z")
Drat, and you got my hopes up for something as good as a dog-on-car-roof story. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryans-neighbors-mostly-didnt-vote-for-him/641341/7 "2012-11-18T08:26:01Z")
Knowing Paul Ryan, I would have assumed that he trained them to pick stocks for two Scooby Snacks a day. They’d like it too, dangit.