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Originally posted by bilmore
Just a comment on Minnesota and Minnesotans:
Big crowds tonight. Rather huge crowds. Lots of yelling and chanting on one side, big numbers and an amused and loud undercurrent on the other. Hostility, and high emotions. Had the two groups mingled, it would have been ugly.
The cops lightly taped their yellow Police Line tape across trees, parking meters, cars, and pedestrians who were too slow.
And NO ONE TRIED TO CROSS THEM.
Damn, we're a polite people.
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I find this to be America's single greatest redeeming quality.
My perception is that this is the most invective campaign in my lifetime, and likely since at least the Vietnam war, and yet people don't cross the lines. A few people have gotten arrested here and there, but nobody's been beaten to a pulp, no mobs have stampled their opponents, and no one's died.
Contrast that with even modern democracies like Italy, where it just isn't an election unless someone's head gets blown off with a high-power rifle.
