It’s Primary Day.

I hope you bought your liquor and lottery tickets yesterday, because today is a statewide election which means the unprepared among us will stay sober and broke.

So, tonight at 7:00 it begins. There will be second guessing and a lot of shoulda-coulda-woulda reflection. There will be others who say, “We did what we needed to do.”

It won’t be over until the end, though. We’re already seeing last minute battles being waged.

The folks who first introduced us to the B. R. Skelton “dumb@$$” video noted a couple of items worth passing along today.

The first came from an e-mail they reportedly received where an unhappy voter wanted them to figuratively pull the covers off of a legislator participating in (wait for the pun) additional “polling.”

We don’t know if this post was referring to a him or a her, but the “Truthies” opted to be the McDLT of political blogging — keeping the hot side hot and the cool side cool to let someone else pick from the number of affairs to expose while they stick with issue and advertising exposure.

Another post from late yesterday highlights an Anderson Independent Mail article claiming that an owner of the Daily Journal and Daily Messenger newspapers in Seneca voted absentee yesterday in Oconee County even though he lives in Pickens County.

According to his own newspaper today, this was not a mixup. He’s apparently been using his business address as his home address and voting from there for years.

That’s a no-no.

It doesn’t give his newspaper much credibility either.

With an owner who seems to be playing fast and loose with the state’s election laws, why should anyone believe any of his paper’s editorials?

I wonder if the conversations around there go something like this, “Hey. Tell you what. You buy a full page spread so our little paper can generate some ad revenue, and I’ll make sure there are some nice false claims against your opponent. Don’t worry. By the time I publish the endorsements, it’ll be too late for them to to do anything about it.”

The response? “Sure thing. It’s a bargain at twice the price.”

I guess if you’re in Pickens and/or Oconee, and you’re basing your vote off of the paper’s endorsements, know that there’s the distinct possibility that campaigns were greasing those wheels for endorsements.

It’ll all be over at 7:00 — unless there’s a runoff. Then we get to watch this silliness all over again.

– Bo Burdette