I guess my overall feeling is in two areas:
Absolutely nobody has any idea what is going to happen tomorrow, let alone next week, and certainly not in Columbus. The media is putting anyone on the air who will give them a headline they can banner for 6 hours.
As part of that, all the predicted conspiracy theorists (especially here) who predict how all the people on the other side of an issue are going to gang up, conspire and use some black magic to deny their candidate his well deserved yada yada yada are simply trying to sell “oats that have been through the horse once.”
Secondly, as “hate filled, etc.” campaigns, this is nothing. This is amateur night compared to the integration candidates v. segregation candidates in the ‘60s or the 1860-1880s.
Heck, we’re well into the electoral process and nobody has even been shot or hanged yet!
PS, I was/am a hard core conservative R, but Gary Hart rallies were THE place to pick up good looking girls, and have THEM take YOU home. If a man couldn’t get lucky there, he wouldn’t even have been successful walking into a women’s prison with a handful of pardons!
The current crop of political “upsets” is nothing compared to a typical George Wallace or George McGovern presidential rally, complete with protestors, cops beating heads, tear gas, rocks, bottles, etc.
Ah, the good old days.
Big time true.