“I think this is the worst election in my lifetime,” said George Argodale, a Nikki Haley supporter from Gainesville, Virginia. “It’s just terrible that we don’t have better candidates.”

“That’s a sad state of affairs for our country that those are the two best candidates that we can come up with,” agreed Peggy Hudson, a primary voter in Charleston, South Carolina.

Judith Smith, from Moncks Corner, South Carolina, said of Biden and Trump: “That’s like choosing between a hedgehog and a porcupine.”

As the primary season sputters to an expected ending, following Haley’s withdrawal from the Republican primary on Wednesday, voters’ frustration with their general election options is palpable.

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    8 months ago

    A hedgehog who believes we can do better and a porcupine who wants to burn down your house and kill your entire family.

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      8 months ago

      But only if the porcupine gets all your money after the murder, and he can hire some one to do all the hard murder work, and he doesn’t have to pay the hired murder person after the murdering.

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      Yeah, what a stupid analogy. It’s the difference between “Oh, this thing is cute and slightly prickly” and “OH MY GOD I HAVE SPINES STUCK IN MY SKIN AND NEED MEDICAL ATTENTION!”

      Like, one of those is clearly worse than the other.

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        No, a hedgehog who isn’t stopping genocide and providing material support to both the genociders and genocidees versus a porcupine who said the genocide isn’t going far or fast enough.