We can't all be James & Mary

The NYT reports that election related emotions are so raw:

Last week an 18-year-old Marine recruit in West Palm Beach, Fla., was arrested for threatening to stab his girlfriend, partly, the authorities said, because she planned to vote for Senator John Kerry. "You'll never live to see the election," he reportedly told her before sheriff's deputies subdued him with a Taser gun.

Would Dr. Phil characterize this as a healthy relationship? I wonder.