Ordinary firmness

McCain supporters in North Carolina heckle early Obama voters:

That's classy.

It also kind of reminds me of Jill Lepore's recent New Yorker article about how we used to vote:

Voting in America, it's fair to say, used to be different. "Are you not a man in the full vigor of manhood and strength?" a member of the House Committee on Elections asked another Harrison supporter who, like Kyle, went to the polls but turned back without voting (and who happened to stand six feet and weigh more than two hundred pounds). The hearings established a precedent. "To vacate an election," an election-law textbook subsequently advised, "it must clearly appear that there was such a display of force as ought to have intimidated men of ordinary firmness."

Comments

[Midori]

It seems to me that obnoxious hecklers may be the only bipartisan activity this election. Both sides have managed to reach new lows in voter behavior. Still trying to get my head around the young liberal hecklers in their "Sarah Palin is a C**T" t-shirts. Also very classy.