There’s a third factor in this past election that Townhall seems to have missed.
A black man attacks a white policeman, attempts to disarm the policeman, and is shot dead in the process. Obama and the Democrat party attempt to use this shooting to rally their black base to the polls for the midterm election, but something went wrong along the way. It now appears as if this shooting rallied more whites than blacks to the polls for this midterm election.
I do think that the Ferguson riots also hit a small chord with the voters. Not a huge one, but influential enough. Many people voted for Obama to assuage their white guilt and with the hope that racial relations would improve. They have not, they have gotten worse. And when they see the administration take part in siding with lawlessness, they find it offensive.
“It now appears as if this shooting rallied more whites than blacks to the polls for this midterm election.”
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Maybe some of those who so loved to wallow in white guilt are beginning to wake up to the fact that black does not automatically make right anymore than white automatically makes right and telling the truth does not make a person a racist. If Al Sharpton says that Jeffrey Dahmer was a hideous monster he is correct and if David Duke says that Sharpton is a con artist he is also correct. Neither statement has any bearing on whether or not Sharpton is a black racist or Duke is a white racist. Both are simply observations of reality.