He is both an anomaly -- most voters live much more "on the grid, " own TVs and follow news on the Internet -- and exactly the type of voter both campaigns are pouring millions of dollars into wooing.
But Scotland in the late Eighties was no place to be a Conservative-voter, and this seat also fitted comfortably into the rural Celtic fringe-type so beloved by the LibDems.
When Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed the state's voter photo identification measure into law this month, the move harkened back to the type of discrimination Simmons' grandmother and others faced during the tumultuous civil rights era, the state legislator said.