[dowcaet]

I think Pat’s right on the money. I think whites from coast to coast are getting fed up being blamed for black America’s failures.

[Zathras]

Normally I’d say Pat was full of it but I remember watching the riots in the 60-70’s.
It seemed cool to walk out of class along with college students.
Until they started burning down cities.

[headstamp 2]

The main difference today also is the 24 hour news cycle and coverage.

[MichaelCorleone]

I disagree. Assuming it doesn’t last for more than a couple of weeks, the Nov elections are too far away. By then all this will be a distant memory and the political fallout from Ferguson will be minimal.

What will get everyone to the voting booth is the last six years of fundamental transformation. We all know that America has become the laughingstock of the world and we are but a shadow of what America was only 30 years ago.

[skinkinthegrass]

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[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Richard Nixon was elected in a massive rout in 1968

"Massive rout," my butt. Nixon took 43.4% of the popular vote versus Humphrey's 42.7%, with Wallace taking the rest. Since when is 43.4% a "massive route"? Since when is a 0.7% difference between the winner and the runner-up called "massive"? Since when is having 56.7% of the voters vote *against* you a "massive rout"? Sheesh.

He's obviously confusing it with the 1972 election.

[CharlesOConnell]

People have short memories. One account of "W"'s re-election in 2004 is that it was a reaction to the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health (2003) forcing through sodomite pseudo-marriage.

GAY MARRIAGE: Did issue help re-elect Bush?

Now, with less than 3% of the population homosexual, the elites have got their clutches thoroughly around the public weal.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Buchanan, in an interview with the Daily Caller today, predicted that the violence in Ferguson and the perceived enabling of race hustlers and leftist revolutionaries there will generate a massive negative reaction by America’s “silent majority” at the polls in November.

Buchanan has been predicting the same sort of "massive negative reaction" for the better part of three decades now. He's wrong, as usual - the events in Ferguson are of interest to the major media organizations, political bloggers, the Washington Beltway, and absolutely no one else. The Senate will be won or lost based on economic concerns - no one will even remember the Ferguson shooting or the resulting riots.

[rdcbn]

Many white Americans voted for Obama in hopes of buying racial peace in America.

Instead of being the uniter he claimed to be, Obama has been the most divisive, race baiting President in American history.

The knock out game has been slapping middle class America out of their apathetic slumber.

The events in Ferguson are going to be a gut punch to force Americans to realize the damage Obama is doing.

[Pollster1]

Obama and the rest of America’s enemies aren’t just counting on Ferguson as another political Trayvon moment for their base, they are polling on it. If this fails, they will try the next item on their list. The war on women failed. The minimum wage failed. Immigration failed. They are hoping the latest Sweet Baby Trayvon will motivate their low-information voters. This is likely to fail too, and they know it, but they are desperate. I imagine they already have the next trial balloon ready for when they decide this isn’t enough either.

[Jim Noble]

Richard Nixon was elected in a massive rout in 1968

301 EV, 43.4% of the popular vote, 511,944 popular vote margin.

Not a "massive rout" by any stretch of the imagination.