Terminally stupid.

Guy in front of me at the poll, when asked R or D:  "I'm too poor to be a Republican, guess that makes me a Democrat, ha ha ha."

To which I responded (very much under my breath) "Then that makes you too dumb to vote intelligently anyway, so take the D ballot."

I think the lady who handed me my ballot heard me.  Anyway she was smiling when she handed it to me.

This guy was not too poor to be a Republican.  First of all, he lives in my precinct.  So by definition he must have a certain level of income.  Second, he's most likely retired (nobody who works a real job votes at noon, 'cept me, but hey, I'm a full-time telecommuter and can walk to my polling place on my lunch hour).  From his comment, he's probably retired union and on a pension that probably pays better than I'll ever make when (if) I retire, and he's probably in the tank for Zero to begin with.

All in all, I'm just as happy he took the D ballot so he couldn't cancel my vote for Mourdock.

But how does a guy get that fucking dumb?  Hell, he couldn't even figure out that he didn't have a straight ticket box to check BECAUSE IT'S THE FUCKING PRIMARY.  Geez.

Well, on the other hand, I should probably cut him some slack; he's probably discombobulated because Andre isn't on the ballot.  Since we're in the 5th now where we belong instead of in the 7th.

BTW I should note that I was vote #134 in my precinct.  In 2010 I voted at around 11AM, and by then only 45 had voted.  And that was supposed to be a big Tea Party primary if I recall correctly.

However we are not on track for 2008 numbers; in that year I voted in the primary at 9:45 AM and was voter #165, and for the general voted at 7:30 AM and was voter #131.  But in the 2008 general there were voters in line that I'd never seen before and have never seen since, all there to vote for the false Messiah.